1st Edition

Landscape and Identity Geographies of Nation and Class in England

By Wendy Joy Darby Copyright 2000
358 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

In England, perhaps more than most places, people's engagement with the landscape is deeply felt and has often been expressed through artistic media. The popularity of walking and walking clubs perhaps provides the most compelling evidence of the important role landscape plays in people's lives. Not only is individual identity rooted in experiencing landscape, but under the multiple impacts of... Read more
Introduction: Envisioning/Re-visioning Landscape Part 1: Representational 1 Critical Perspectives: The Classification of Views 2 Landscape of Culture 3 Landscape of Nation Part ll: Political 4 The Politics of Access 5 Accessing the Lake District 6 Access/ Ability: Private Property and National Parks, Part III: Ethnographic 7 Re-Siting/Sighting/Citing the View 8 Particular Points of View, Conclusion: Envisioning/Re-Visioning Community

Biography

Wendy Joy Darby Independent Scholar