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Abstract
Transcending the dualism between ‘nature’ and‘culture’ has been one of the central aims of geographicalknowledge during the last decade or so. The present paper adds to this growing bodyof literature by focusing on the construction of a key space of the French SecondEmpire (1852-1870), the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont in the newly created 19tharrondissement in Paris. The paper argues that the nexus between culture andnature-what has been described most fittingly as ‘social nature’in the literature-can profitably be approached through the lenses afforded by areformulated concept of labour. Taking cues from Don Mitchell’s conceptualnotion of ‘dead labour’, the paper explores the impact of bothtechnology and design on an emerging urban nature that was to be centrallyimplicated in the naturalization of many values within an emerging bourgeois,Western world with its emphasis on the commodification of increasing parts ofeveryday life. Ostensibly non-commodified urban park landscapes were implicated inthis process precisely because they embodied a notion of‘labour’ that was-and continues to be-both necessary andhomogeneous and thus akin to the sense of labour developing in the world of commerceat the same time.
Journal
Cultural Geographies – SAGE
Published: Oct 1, 2006