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1st Edition

Justice, Power and the Political Landscape

Edited By Kenneth Olwig, Donald Mitchell Copyright 2009
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge
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Landscape is now on the agenda in a new way. The increasing interest in justice, power and the political landscape expresses a sea change occurring in the meaning of landscape itself, from landscape as scenery to landscape as polity and place. As Lionella Scazzosi argues "The meaning of the term ‘landscape’ has become broader than that of a view or panorama, which characterized many national... Read more
  1. Intro: Justice, Power and the Political Landscape Kenneth R. Olwig and Don Mitchell

    2. Part 1: Law, Polity and the Changing Meaning of Landscape

  2. Editorial Kenneth R. Olwig

  3. The Landscape of ‘Customary’ Law versus that of ‘Natural’ Law Kenneth R. Olwig

  4. Between ‘Platial’ Imaginations and Spatial Rationalities: Navigating Justice and Law in the Low Countries Tom Mels

  5. Planning and the Picturesque: A Case Study of the Dunedin District Plan and its Application to the Management of the Landscape of the Otago Peninsula Marion Read

  6. Turning Social Relations into Space: Property, Law and the Plaza of Santa Fe, New Mexico Don Mitchell & Lynn A. Staeheli.

  7. Lawyering Landscapes: Lawyers as Constituents of Landscape Deborah G. Martin & Alexander Scherr.

  8. Restoring Mill Creek: Landscape Literacy, Environmental Justice and City Planning and Design Anne Whiston Spirn.

  9. Conflict between Global and Local Land-Use Values in Latvia’s Gauja National Park Gregory Taff

    10. Part 2: From American Space to the European Landscape Convention

  10. Editorial Kenneth R. Olwig & Don Mitchell

  11. The Geographies of a More Just Food System: Building Landscapes for Social Reproduction Carrie Breitbach.

  12. Work, Struggle, Death, and Geographies of Justice: The Transformation of Landscape in and beyond California’s Imperial Valley Don Mitchell

  13. The Practice of Landscape ‘Conventions’ and the Just Landscape: The Case of the European Landscape Convention Kenneth R. Olwig.

  14. The ‘‘Landscape Must Become the Law’’—Or Should It? Gert Groening

  15. The European Landscape Convention and the Question of Public Participation Michael Jones.

  16. Living with and Looking at Landscape David Lowenthal

  17. Christo’s Gates and Gilo’s Wall W.J.T. Mitchell

Biography

Kenneth R. Olwig is a Professor at the Department of Landscape Planning, Swedish University of Life Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden.

Don Mitchell is a Professor at the Department of Geography, Syracuse University, USA.

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