 | The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape Subjects: Migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- History -- 20th century; Migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- Social conditions; Labor disputes -- California -- History -- 20th century; Human geography -- California; Landscape -- California; The beauty of the California landscape is integral to its place in the imagination of generations of people around the world. In The Lie of the Land, geographer Don Mitchell looks at the human costs associated with this famous scenery. Through an account of the labor history of the state, Mitchell examines the material and ideological struggles over living and working conditions that played a large part in the construction of the contemporary California landscape. Don Mitchell was born in 1961. He is a graduate of San Diego State University and Pennsylvania State University. He received a Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1992, working with Neil Smith. He taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder before joining Syracuse University as a professor of geography in the late 1990s. He is best known for his work on cultural theory and the People's Geography Project. He works on labor struggles, human rights, and justice. In 1998, he became a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2008 a Guggenheim Fellow. He was awarded the Anders Retzius Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 2012. He is the author of several books including The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space, The People's Property?: Power, Politics and the Public, and The Freedom Summer Murders. (Bowker Author Biography) |
