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January, 2009
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Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are. By Paul Robbins. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. xxi + 186 pp. Illustrations, tables, figures, notes, and index. Paper $23.95.
Some homeowners feel like a slave to their lawn. Paul Robbins's book assures them that this feeling is not a mistake. Indeed, they are a slave to the demands of their turf grass. Typically, lawns have been viewed as a cultural product created by choices, where humans are the actors and the lawn is the subject of our action, Robbins's premise reverses this relationship. Robbins applies critical theory and political ecology to the lawn and discovers that we are the subject of our lawns' actions, responding to the demands and requirements of the lawn. In the process, we become "lawn people" obliged to follow its demands. . . .
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