Beyond the Country House: Historic Conservation as Aesthetic Politics

European Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 403-423

  Deckha, Nityanand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

affect; Britain; everyday life; heritage; London; postmodern capitalisn; spatialization of culture; urbanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847322392     PISSN: 13675494     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367549404042491     Document Type: Article

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