Nancy Duncan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4001391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Duncan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sense Of Place As A Positional Good Locating Bedford In Space And Time
Theory in the Field
Computer–aided music distribution
The Internet has made music more widely available and increased the convenience with which we can listen to music. We increasingly recognize that recorded music can take the form of digital files. The Internet and related technologies for music delivery have been made viable by advances in compression, data storage, and transmission technologies. To provide greater value to consumers, music labels need to make greater use of retrieval and selecti…
Landscapes of Privilege
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.
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…
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…
BodySpace
BodySpace brings together some of the best known geographers writing on gender and sexuality today. Together they explore the role of space and place in the performance of gender and sexuality. The book takes a broad perspective on feminism as a theoretical critique, and aims to ground - and destabilize - notions of citizenship, work, violence, race and disability in their geographical contexts. The book explores the idea of knowledge as embodied…
Reconceptualizing the Idea of Culture in Geography
culture concept in the 'new cultural geography'. It is a fine statement of the dangers of reifying culture on the part of geographers who may be tempted to use it as an explanatory variable rather than studying how the category of culture operates in practice. In other words, as geographers, we should be studying the reification of culture rather than reifying the concept of culture ourselves. Mitchell presents his paper as a critique of the work…
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…
Reconceptualizing the Idea of Culture in Geography
culture concept in the 'new cultural geography'. It is a fine statement of the dangers of reifying culture on the part of geographers who may be tempted to use it as an explanatory variable rather than studying how the category of culture operates in practice. In other words, as geographers, we should be studying the reification of culture rather than reifying the concept of culture ourselves. Mitchell presents his paper as a critique of the work…
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…
BodySpace
BodySpace brings together some of the best known geographers writing on gender and sexuality today. Together they explore the role of space and place in the performance of gender and sexuality. The book takes a broad perspective on feminism as a theoretical critique, and aims to ground - and destabilize - notions of citizenship, work, violence, race and disability in their geographical contexts. The book explores the idea of knowledge as embodied…
Reconceptualizing the Idea of Culture in Geography
culture concept in the 'new cultural geography'. It is a fine statement of the dangers of reifying culture on the part of geographers who may be tempted to use it as an explanatory variable rather than studying how the category of culture operates in practice. In other words, as geographers, we should be studying the reification of culture rather than reifying the concept of culture ourselves. Mitchell presents his paper as a critique of the work…
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…
Landscapes of Privilege
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.
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…
Computer–aided music distribution
The Internet has made music more widely available and increased the convenience with which we can listen to music. We increasingly recognize that recorded music can take the form of digital files. The Internet and related technologies for music delivery have been made viable by advances in compression, data storage, and transmission technologies. To provide greater value to consumers, music labels need to make greater use of retrieval and selecti…
Sense Of Place As A Positional Good Locating Bedford In Space And Time
Theory in the Field
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)