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AREL 870 - Un/Natural Space/American Landscape

3 credits
Landscape, which can be understood as a community’s dwelling place, has a complex relationship with nature, disaster, and unnatural forces.  Memory and identity are deeply rooted in this ‘natural’ place and are marginalized by its disruptive transformation into un/natural space.  Issues of race, gender, and class become divided, following such disruptions as the landscape is memorialized, commoditized, commercialized, or destroyed. Students may focus on selected examples of radical landscape transformation. Among those considered are: Hurricane Sandy, mountain-top removal in Appalachia, 9/11, the 1889 Johnston flood and the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma. Of specific interest is the topography of everyday life, distance versus proximity, and cultural parity versus cultural superiority.  Drawing on theoretical resources, students explore these questions through various assignments.


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