Land & identity : : theory, memory, and practice / / edited by Christine Berberich, Neil Campbell, and Robert Hudson.

• Superior document: Spatial practices, 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Berberich, Chris.; Campbell, Neil.; Hudson, Robert.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Spatial practices ; 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Notes: Conference proceedings.

This collection of essays aims to investigate the complex issues surrounding contemporary cultural discourses on land and identity – their production, construction, and reconstruction across a range of different texts and materials. The chapters offer disciplinary and trans-disciplinary approaches opening up discussion and new routes for research in a number of interrelated areas such as Countryside vs. City, Diaspora, Landscapes of Memory and Trauma, Migrational Spaces, and Ecology. They represent a number of innovative contemporary responses to how concepts of land intersect and dialogue with notions of identity across and between regions, nations, races, and cultures. Through employing interdisciplinary methods and theories drawn from diverse sources, such as cultural studies, spatial theory, philosophy and literary theory, the chapters chart varied and complex themes of identity formation in relation to spatiality.

Table of Contents

section A. Land and identity : theories and philosophies -- section B. Landscapes of memory : eschatology, trauma, and diaspora -- section C. Literary landscapes : urbanism, ecology and the rural.