Landscape Citizenships
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780367478834
Subjects: Human ecology
Description: "Landscape Citizenships, featuring work by academics from the USA, Europe, and the Middle East, extends the growing body of thought and research in landscape democracy and landscape justice. Landscape, as a milieu of situated everyday practice in which people make places and places make people in an inextricable relation, is proving a powerful concept for conceiving of politics and citizenships as lived, dialogic, and emplaced. Grounded in the discourses of ecological, watershed, and bioregional citizenships, this edited collection evaluates belonging through the idea of landscape as landship which describes substantive, mutually constitutive relations between people and place. With a strong international focus across fourteen chapters, it delves into key topics such as marginalization, indigeneity, globalization, politics, and the environment, before finishing with an afterword written by Kenneth R. Olwig. This volume will appeal to scholars and activists working in citizenship studies, migration, landscape studies, landscape architecture, ecocriticism, and the many disciplines which converge around these topics, from design to geography, anthropology, politics, and much more"--