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(2019) Photography and the non-place, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Brogden offers a much-needed critical and aesthetic defence of "non-place", an act of cultural reclamation. In redefining Marc Augé's concept of non-place, Brogden uses a broader perspective, one that includes post-industrial areas of land situated in the urban landscape, whose cultural meaning has been erased and contested. Brogden considers why these non-places are dismissed as "wastelands' or "brownfield" sites. The chapter draws attention to non-place as a critical mirror to evaluate contemporary society. Brogden's approach uses the critical conduit offered by non-place to draw upon resources from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, memory studies, eco-criticism, geography, urban theory, and photographic history, to construct a new conception of non-place. Why are certain landscapes protected and valued above other landscapes? Does an established landscape "cultural aesthetic" persist, one that represents ideological power? The "Introduction" concludes with a declaration to view non-places in a different way.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-03919-6_1
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Brogden, J. (2019). Introduction, in Photography and the non-place, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-12.
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