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Under Siege: The Discursive Production of Embattled Suburbs and Empowered Suburbanites in America, 1976-1992

Description:

My dissertation details a new era of American suburban life marked by endangerment, defense, and empowerment. In the period from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s, real events, news media narratives, and popular culture representations associated suburban life and space with endemic hazards...

Author:

Riismandel, Kyle

Keyword:

Suburb, space and culture, productive victimization, popular culture, suburban studies, and 1980s

GW Unit:

American Studies

Degree:

Ph.D.

Advisor:

Heap, Chad

Committee Member(s):

Schiavo, Laura Burd, McAlister, Melani, Anker, Elisabeth, and Osman, Suleiman

Resource Type:

Thesis or Dissertation