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    The Art of the Airport: Using Public History and Material Culture to Humanize and Interpret the American Airport

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    Genre
    Thesis/Dissertation
    Date
    2018
    Author
    Smith III, John E.
    Advisor
    Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975-
    Committee member
    Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975-
    Lowe, Hilary Iris
    Grossi, Patrick
    Department
    History
    Subject
    History
    American History
    Airports
    Material Culture
    Philadelphia International Airport
    Public History
    Surveillance
    Urban Planning
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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/3582
    
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/3564
    Abstract
    In recent decades, government officials and social scientists have increased their study of American airports and their relationship to security and national defense. Despite the growing attention, airports remain interpreted primarily as homogenized, transient spaces deprived of any culturally unique qualities. This thesis will study American airports as historical artifacts with significant layers of meaning. If contextualized and situated within a broader historical framework, then airports expose larger trends throughout American history including resistance to multiculturalism and diversity. The stress and anxiety often associated with airports reflect a prolonged struggle to embrace the democratization of public places. If studied with an historical approach from multiple perspectives, then the airport provides historians with a tangible, familiar object to engage popular audiences about complicated issues such as surveillance, xenophobia, and urban renewal. This thesis proposes a conceptual framework for historians to assess the significance of airport space and offers suggestions to better engage the national conversations surrounding these complicated spaces.
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