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(2018) Landscape and power in geographical space as a social-aesthetic construct, Dordrecht, Springer.
This book has four main chapters. Chapter 2 (Theoretical Foundations) is concerned largely with the perspectives and concepts of social constructivism, landscape, power, and aesthetics that underlie the entire work. Chapter 3 (The Genesis of Social Landscapes and their Physical Manifestations) considers the co-evolution of social constructs of landscape and human impacts on physical space. This already broaches issues of power and the development of concepts of landscape that form the matter of Chapter 4 (Social Processes of Landscape Definition). Here various processes of socialization are described in which landscape is constituted not only in itself but also as a medium of social distinctions. Chapter 5 (Case Studies) considers examples of the impact of power on and in landscape, from physical organization through the "American grid" or through the imposition of socialist doctrine, to the struggle for interpretive authority over the values and ideals involved in particular landscape concepts. One such context cited here is the expansion of renewable energy sources; another is the communicative structures of model railway enthusiasts.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72902-2_1
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Kühne, O. (2018). Introduction, in Landscape and power in geographical space as a social-aesthetic construct, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-10.
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