James S Duncan
Biographic Data
| ID | 205769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James S Duncan |
| GIVEN NAMES | James S |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCAN J S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5167-9856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1075 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Power of Place: Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations
The Power of Place (RLE Social & Cultural Geography): Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations
Reflecting the revival of interest in a social theory that takes place and space seriously, this book focuses on geographical place in the practice of social science and history. There is significant interest among scholars from a range of disciplines in bringing together the geographical and sociological ‘imaginations’. The geographical imagination is a concrete and descriptive one, concerned with determining the nature of places, and classifyin…
Place/Culture/Representation
Sense Of Place As A Positional Good Locating Bedford In Space And Time
Theory in the Field
Denis E. Cosgrove (1948—2008)
Excavation of the defensive ditches at Balmuildy Roman Fort, Glasgow, 1999
Excavation by GUARD in 1999 on the southern defences of Balmuildy Roman fort exposed small sections of three ditches: two to the W of the S gate of the fort, one to the E. All were found in locations consistent with Miller's 1922 excavation plan of the site, though, contrary to expectations, none of these features appeared to have been previously excavated. The limited investigations produced no information which would substantially alter our und…
Commentary 2
A Companion to Cultural Geography
Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb
James and Nancy Duncan look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb-Bedford in Westchester County, NY-they show how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion.
Landscapes of privilege: The politics of the aesthetic in an American suburb
Looks at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system. Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb - Bedford in Westchester County, NY - shows how the physical presentation of a place carries with it a range of markers of inclusion and exclusion
Culture Unbound
The key concept of culture has recently been undergoing critical reassessment, and in some cases replacement, by cultural theorists in a number of fields. Some commentators have argued that the concept of culture is too elusive and all encompassing to be of use and that it can be politically dangerous. We will argue instead that the problem is not inherent in all concepts of culture, but in the specific political uses to which particular concepts…
Embodying colonialism? Domination and resistence in nineteenth-century Ceylonese coffee plantations
The Aestheticization of the Politics of Landscape Preservation
This article examines the aestheticization of the politics of exclusion in a suburban American community. The research for this study focuses on the relationships among landscapes, social identity, exclusion, and the aesthetic attitudes of residents of Bedford, New York. By being thoroughly aestheticized, class relations are mystified and reduced to questions of lifestyle, consumption patterns, taste, and visual pleasure. Landscapes become posses…
The Struggle to be Temperate: Climate and “Moral Masculinity” in Mid‐Nineteenth Century Ceylon
This paper examines a particular type of imperial literature, the writing of the plantation in mid‐nineteenth century Ceylon. These writings, by and for the male planting community, were written to recruit, instruct and entertain, and drew upon discourses of tropicality and moral masculinity. But discourses are constrained by the material conditions under which they are put into practice. Consequently, writings about a place such as highland Ceyl…
The excavation of a cordoned urn at Benderloch, Argyll
The appointment of a new North American editor
Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
Magisterial Visions: Recent Anglo-American Scholarship on the Represented Landscape
THE STUDY OF THE REPRESENTED LANDSCAPE-IN TEXT AND IMAGE-IS currently in its glory days. Yet few traditionally minded scholars of landscape art would recognize their subject in much recent work. In the past few years, numerous British and American studies have considered the cultural meanings of Anglo-American landscape representation from widely varied perspectives.' The topic has proved a meeting ground for transatlantic collaborators wielding …
The politics of landscape and nature, 1992-93
On “The Reinvention of Cultural Geography” by Price and Lewis: Commentary
Landscapes of the Self/Landscapes of the Other(s): Cultural Geography 1991–92
Landscapes of the self/landscapes of the other(s): Cultural geography 1991-92
Writing worlds: Discourse, Text, and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
The purpose of this book is to explore issues of geographical description from a poststructuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors organize their discussion of geographical writings around the three themes of discourse, text and metaphor.
The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom
Place/Culture/Representation
Writing worlds: Discourse, Text, and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
The purpose of this book is to explore issues of geographical description from a poststructuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors organize their discussion of geographical writings around the three themes of discourse, text and metaphor.
(Re)Reading the Landscape
Insights from literary theory are applied to the analysis of landscapes. It is suggested that the concepts of textuality, intertextuality, and reader reception may be of importance to those interested in the notion that landscapes are read in much the same way as literary texts. It is further suggested that landscapes can be seen as texts which are transformations of ideologies into a concrete form. This is an important way in which ideologies be…
The city as text: The politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom
The Superorganic in American Cultural Geography∗
The superorganic mode of explanation in cultural geography reifies the nation of culture assigning it ontological status and causative power. This theory of culture was outlined by anthropologists Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie during the first quarter of the twentieth century, later elaborated by Leslie White, and passed on to Carl Sauer and a number of his students at Berkeley. In this theory culture is viewed as an entity above man, not reduc…
Power of Place: Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations
The Aestheticization of the Politics of Landscape Preservation
This article examines the aestheticization of the politics of exclusion in a suburban American community. The research for this study focuses on the relationships among landscapes, social identity, exclusion, and the aesthetic attitudes of residents of Bedford, New York. By being thoroughly aestheticized, class relations are mystified and reduced to questions of lifestyle, consumption patterns, taste, and visual pleasure. Landscapes become posses…
Embodying colonialism? Domination and resistence in nineteenth-century Ceylonese coffee plantations
Landscape Taste as a Symbol of Group Identity: A Westchester County Village
OCIAL scientists have suggested that the landscape in which an individual lives is a major factor in his self-perception and in the image he presents to society.1 One should be able, therefore, to identify different socioeconomic groups on the basis of residential landscapes. This has been done often in order to differentiate income and ethnic areas;2 however, far less obvious social differences may also be expressed in residential landscape choi…
The transfer of ideas into Anglo-American human geography
Men Without Property: The Tramp's Classification and Use of Urban Space
Culture Unbound
The key concept of culture has recently been undergoing critical reassessment, and in some cases replacement, by cultural theorists in a number of fields. Some commentators have argued that the concept of culture is too elusive and all encompassing to be of use and that it can be politically dangerous. We will argue instead that the problem is not inherent in all concepts of culture, but in the specific political uses to which particular concepts…
Progress Report: Review of Urban Imagery: Urban Semiotics
(1987). PROGRESS REPORT: REVIEW OF URBAN IMAGERY: URBAN SEMIOTICS. Urban Geography: Vol. 8, Socialist City II, pp. 473-483
Landscapes of the self/landscapes of the other(s): Cultural geography 1991-92
The politics of landscape and nature, 1992-93
The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom
America
Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
Landscapes of the Self/Landscapes of the Other(s): Cultural Geography 1991–92
A Businessman Looks at Red China
Landscape Taste as a Symbol of Group Identity: A Westchester County Village
OCIAL scientists have suggested that the landscape in which an individual lives is a major factor in his self-perception and in the image he presents to society.1 One should be able, therefore, to identify different socioeconomic groups on the basis of residential landscapes. This has been done often in order to differentiate income and ethnic areas;2 however, far less obvious social differences may also be expressed in residential landscape choi…
Men Without Property: The Tramp's Classification and Use of Urban Space
The Superorganic in American Cultural Geography∗
The superorganic mode of explanation in cultural geography reifies the nation of culture assigning it ontological status and causative power. This theory of culture was outlined by anthropologists Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie during the first quarter of the twentieth century, later elaborated by Leslie White, and passed on to Carl Sauer and a number of his students at Berkeley. In this theory culture is viewed as an entity above man, not reduc…
Housing and Identity: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
The transfer of ideas into Anglo-American human geography
Relativism, Realism and the Possibility of Progress in Human Geography
Land use, environment and social change. The shaping of Island county, Washington
A Complete Object Recognition System as a Computer Vision Course Project
This paper describes a rather simple but complete object recognition system that was implemented in one semester as a class project in our course in computer vision. The system accepts video images of three-dimensional objects composed of configurations of toy blocks and delivers a one-word classification (e.g., ``arch'') of the scene. The strategy employed is one of identifying individual blocks, establishing spatial relationships between the bl…
Progress Report: Review of Urban Imagery: Cognitive Mapping
(1987). PROGRESS REPORT: REVIEW OF URBAN IMAGERY: COGNITIVE MAPPING. Urban Geography: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 264-272
Progress Report: Review of Urban Imagery: Urban Semiotics
(1987). PROGRESS REPORT: REVIEW OF URBAN IMAGERY: URBAN SEMIOTICS. Urban Geography: Vol. 8, Socialist City II, pp. 473-483
"Commentary on Martin Cadwallader's "Urban Geography and Social Theory
Place, Practice and Structure: Social and Spatial Transformation in Southern Sweden: 1750-1850
(Re)Reading the Landscape
Insights from literary theory are applied to the analysis of landscapes. It is suggested that the concepts of textuality, intertextuality, and reader reception may be of importance to those interested in the notion that landscapes are read in much the same way as literary texts. It is further suggested that landscapes can be seen as texts which are transformations of ideologies into a concrete form. This is an important way in which ideologies be…
Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment
Placeways is a philosophical and historical interpretation of the experience and meaning of place. Searching for a way of knowing and living in the world that does not fragment experience or exploit the environment, E. V. Walter explores the way people in other cultures and other times have experienced place. The book develops Walter's theory of topistics -- a holistic way of grasping a place as the location of shapes, powers, feelings, and meani…
The city as text: The politics of landscape interpretation in the Kandyan kingdom
America
Writing worlds: Discourse, Text, and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
The purpose of this book is to explore issues of geographical description from a poststructuralist sensibility. Focusing on landscape representation, the authors organize their discussion of geographical writings around the three themes of discourse, text and metaphor.
The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom
On “The Reinvention of Cultural Geography” by Price and Lewis: Commentary
Landscapes of the Self/Landscapes of the Other(s): Cultural Geography 1991–92
Landscapes of the self/landscapes of the other(s): Cultural geography 1991-92
The politics of landscape and nature, 1992-93
Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
Magisterial Visions: Recent Anglo-American Scholarship on the Represented Landscape
THE STUDY OF THE REPRESENTED LANDSCAPE-IN TEXT AND IMAGE-IS currently in its glory days. Yet few traditionally minded scholars of landscape art would recognize their subject in much recent work. In the past few years, numerous British and American studies have considered the cultural meanings of Anglo-American landscape representation from widely varied perspectives.' The topic has proved a meeting ground for transatlantic collaborators wielding …
Geography (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Economic geography (9 works) · Human geography (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 works)