Cosmopolitan Domesticity: Importing the American Dream, 1865-1920

Encounters with Popular Pasts

“…176-180). The national parks literature has discussed such physical transformations while overlooking the cognitive transformation of domesticating imperialism (Hoganson 2002;West 1999).…”

Eating local in a U.S. city: Reconstructing “community”-a third place-in a global neoliberal economy

“…I use liberal open‐mindedness to describe the deliberately broad yet ideologically charged consciousness that drives many of the participants—both sellers and buyers—in this market. This particular construction of consciousness resonates with an attitude that historian Kristin Hoganson locates among U.S. households during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; she describes shoppers of that time as “cosmopolitan consumers [who] regarded their homes as loci of interaction with the wider world, as manifestations of open‐mindedness and cultural receptivity” (2002:83). In contrast to Hoganson's cosmopolitan consumers, however, I also emphasize the active and informed, sociopolitically charged ideology of “liberalism” that motivates the “open‐mindedness” of the participants at Farmers’ Basket.…”

Travels with feminist historical geography

“…A quick glance at the proceedings of the 12th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (2002) suggests the range of issues on offer, from the historical gendering of the real estate profession in the USA, to concerns over the urban spatial constructions of heteronormativity. And although on closer inspection some of these concerns by feminist historians about geography dissolve into metaphor, a good deal address issues at the very core of feminist historical geography-the complex historical relationships between gender and space (see, for example, Deutsch, 2002;Hoganson, 2002). But even closer to home, as it were, within the discipline of geography itself, feminist historical geography often travels under pseudonym.…”