Can't Live With Them; Can't Landscape Without Them: Racism and the Pastoral Aesthetic in Suburban New York

Duncan, James S.; Duncan, Nancy

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“…The Vermont research carried out by McCandless has been qualitatively distinct, highlighting different aspects of how receiving location landscape outcomes associated with transnational labor migration are likewise highly gendered. The Vermont case also highlights the role of transnational labor in maintaining landscapes that remain or become aesthetically valuable even as their productive value declines (see also Duncan and Duncan 2003). We find the simultaneous presentation of these two cases both informative and promising.…”

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Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: case studies from southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA

2010

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Gender shapes the migration-environment association in both origin and destination communities. Using quantitative and qualitative data, we juxtapose these gender dimensions for a labor migrant-sending location of Mexico's southern Yucatán with those for a labor migrant-receiving location in Vermont (USA). We illustrate how in the southern Yucatán, circular transnational migration alters pasture, maize and chili production in a peasant field-forest system. Gender norms condition the land-use decisions of migratory households to keep women out of agricultural fields, but in turn may be modified in unexpected ways. With men's migration, more women assume aspects of land management, including in decisionmaking and supervision of hired farm labor. In comparison, in Vermont a largely male migrant labor force helps maintain an idealized, pastoral landscape with gender deeply embedded in how that labor is constructed and managed.

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Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: case studies from southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA

2010

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“…The assumption here is that there is a working-class minority in the village. Joe also highlights the problems of rural racism previously identified by Jay (1992), Dhalech (1999) and Duncan and Duncan (2003). The prevailing stance, as Joe suggests, is that black and minority ethnic people in his village would be seen as out of place, 'alien' (Agyeman 1989), polluting white rural space (Kinsman 1997) and as such they would be systematically excluded-sensations Joe felt himself.…”

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The bricolage of the here: young people's narratives of identity in the countryside

Leyshon

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2011

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Memories are crucial to our construction of place. They simultaneously offer an anchor for identity and different temporalities to encounters with landscapes. Memory allows different spaces, pasts, and futures to become embedded in particular locales. Yet the spontaneous assemblages of meaning that memory enables are not apolitical. Thus the mechanisms and processes by which meaning is articulated in these encounters are fundamental to our understandings of place. This paper, therefore, brings together the work of Henri Bergson on memory and Paul Ricoeur on narrative, to examine the stories individuals produce which define the self. By drawing on research into the lives of young people in the countryside, the paper does three things: it discusses the role of memory in creating identity; it examines the political process of narrative by which memories become woven into understandings of place and create a bricolage of the here; and finally, it offers the 'storied-self' as a resolution of the competing constructions and experiences of personal continuity and the inconsistencies and constant change in the project of the individual.

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“…The stark, minimal tableau inspires a photographer friend who has come along for the ride to compose a picture. Scholars, of course, take up this theme of presence/absence; for example, Duncan and Duncan' (2003) study ofa pastoral suburban New York landscape shows how it was produced both by poor day laborers and by their social and spatial exclusion. We wave them on.…”

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2006

Progress in Human Geography

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Can't Live With Them; Can't Landscape Without Them: Racism and the Pastoral Aesthetic in Suburban New York

Cited by 23 publications

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Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: case studies from southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA

Environment, transnational labor migration, and gender: case studies from southern Yucatán, Mexico and Vermont, USA

The bricolage of the here: young people's narratives of identity in the countryside

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