Landscape – Part I

Agnew, John A. (editor) / Duncan, James S. (editor) / Mitchell, Don (author) / Breitbach, Carrie (author)

The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to Human Geography ; 209-220

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-04-08

12 pages

9781405189897 , 9781444395839

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395839.ch13

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

teaching landscape, quotation from Lowenthal ‐ suggesting both the promise and the prison that is landscape , landscape reading, not simply an exercise ‐ of individual, innate endowment or common sense , landscape, being everyone's fundamental heritage ‐ embracing and unavoidable, inspiring and shaping much of what we learn and do , learning landscape ‐ geographer Peirce Lewis (1983) imploring scholars of “American Scene” to learn by observing , landscape, in this sense and in capitalist societies ‐ “dead labor,” work of its makers concretized , landscape encoded meaning, not one of a “culture” ‐ that could be “read off,” social practices and social histories driven by real people and their efforts , understanding how landscapes work ‐ its workings in places, means of social control and one of resistance