GGR360H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Early Modern Europe, Torrid Zone, Picturesque
16 Jun 2020
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Optional, but will give us an extra mark. Work with cultural texts/sources: books, poems, music, lm, photographs. At least 3 or 4 secondary sources as well. Key points from the previous class: cultural studies, seated. Outline: family portraits, contemporary estates: bedford, ny. 3: the picturesque colonies, discussion, tropicality and the torrid zone". The countryside writ large : imaginative geographies of empire. Blanket interpretations of landscapes and particular ways of seeing are always worth revisiting. Preserving landscape and lifestyle: shaughnessy, vancouver (see james duncan, In the 80s, rich property owners campaigned against densi cation (multi-family homes) under the guise of protecting the neighbourhood"s heritage. Duncan found that even poorer people who didn"t live in shaughnessy supported this. Argues that this is because this was a beautiful, aesthetic landscape that all of. This is the power of hegemony: getting the masses to support these causes through cultural power: contemporary estates: bedford ny.
