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Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa
Media and communications analyst, Roger Silverstone (1997) brings our attention to the negative elements of the suburban landscape, a space more often associated with the comfortable life – one filled with luscious garden lawns, large crystal blue swimming pools, double garages and domestic workers'...
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2024
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| description | Media and communications analyst, Roger Silverstone (1997) brings our attention to the negative elements of the suburban landscape, a space more often associated with the comfortable life – one filled with luscious garden lawns, large crystal blue swimming pools, double garages and domestic workers' quarters. That this domestic space has ‘protected' itself from the stress of the city through the use of high walls, electric fences and wrought iron gates, is an irony worth commenting on. As Silverstone notes, this constructed paradise is not without its complications. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/39241 Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa Lilford, Kirsten Lee MacKenny, Virginia Lamprecht, Andrew Fine Art Media and communications analyst, Roger Silverstone (1997) brings our attention to the negative elements of the suburban landscape, a space more often associated with the comfortable life – one filled with luscious garden lawns, large crystal blue swimming pools, double garages and domestic workers' quarters. That this domestic space has ‘protected' itself from the stress of the city through the use of high walls, electric fences and wrought iron gates, is an irony worth commenting on. As Silverstone notes, this constructed paradise is not without its complications. 2024-03-11T13:56:58Z 2024-03-11T13:56:58Z 2017 2024-03-11T11:31:34Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39241 eng application/pdf Michaelis School of Fine Art Faculty of Humanities |
| spellingShingle | Fine Art Lilford, Kirsten Lee Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa |
| title_full | Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa |
| title_short | Leisure Island: An Investigation of Suburban Landscapes and Domestic Spaces in South Africa |
| title_sort | leisure island an investigation of suburban landscapes and domestic spaces in south africa |
| topic | Fine Art |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39241 |
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