Cultural Geography

by Norton, William

• ISBN13: 9780195419221
• ISBN10: 0195419227
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Cultural Geography, Second Edition, explores how cultural identitiesexpress themselves in the landscape. William Norton examines everything fromMormon temples to shopping malls, from war monuments to roadside memorials, fromsegregated beaches to gay pride parades. Landscapes emerge as sites ofcontestation and consumption, of oppression and exclusion, of sacred importanceand ethnic pride, Cultural Geography reveals how people relate to place on alocal, regional, and global scale.While covering the longstanding interests in ecology, landscape change, andcultural regions, which developed under the influence of Carl Sauer, the secondedition of Cultural Geography also focuses on contemporary movements in thefield. The 'new' cultural geography--informed by Marxist, feminist, humanist,and postmodernist concerns--challenges traditional ideas about humans andnature.Integrating physical and social science, Cultural Geography: Environments,Landscapes, Identities, and Inequalities, Second Edition, provides thoughtfuland balanced coverage of this discipline in all its aspects, past andpresent.

Table of Contents

Figures, Tables, Boxes, and Photo Essays	v
Preface	vii
Chapter 1 Introducing Cultural Geography	1	(29)
Doing Cultural Geography	2	(4)
What this Book Is About	6	(3)
Providing a Context	9	(5)
What Is Culture?	14	(11)
Themes in Cultural Geography	25	(3)
Concluding Comments	28	(1)
Further Reading	29	(1)
Chapter 2 The Tradition of Cultural Geography	30	(38)
Separating Humans And Nature	31	(11)
Environmental Determinism	42	(7)
Human Use of Nature	49	(4)
The Landscape School	53	(6)
Toward Holistic Emphases	59	(6)
Concluding Comments	65	(2)
Further Reading	67	(1)
Chapter 3 Rethinking Cultural Geography	68	(36)
Spatial Analysis	69	(2)
Humanisms	71	(4)
Behavioral Geographies	75	(6)
Marxisms	81	(3)
Feminisms	84	(3)
The Cultural Turn	87	(7)
The Mode of Representation	94	(1)
Conducting Research	95	(1)
Studying Society	96	(3)
Concluding Comments	99	(2)
Further Reading	101	(3)
Chapter 4 Environments, Ethics, Landscapes	104	(51)
Ecology: A Unifying Science?	105	(13)
Rethinking Ecological Approaches	118	(13)
Environmental Ethics	131	(5)
Global Landscape Change During the Past 12,000 Years	136	(14)
Concluding Comments	150	(1)
Further Reading	151	(4)
Chapter 5 Landscape Evolution	155	(46)
Cultural Diffusion	156	(8)
Cultural Contact and Transfer	164	(9)
Shaping Landscapes	173	(13)
Imagining Past Landscapes	186	(9)
Concluding Comments	195	(3)
Further Reading	198	(3)
Chapter 6 Regional Landscapes	201	(45)
What Are Cultural Regions?	202	(4)
Forming Cultural Regions	206	(15)
Regions as Homelands	221	(13)
Shaping the Contemporary World	234	(3)
Global Regions	237	(6)
Concluding Comments	243	(1)
Further Reading	244	(2)
Chapter 7 Power, Identity, Global Landscapes	246	(47)
One World Divided	247	(1)
The Mistaken Idea of Race	248	(6)
The Reality of Racism	254	(18)
Ethnicity and Nationality	272	(8)
A Cultural Geography of Our Unequal World	280	(9)
Concluding Comments	289	(1)
Further Reading	290	(3)
Chapter 8 Other Voices, Other Landscapes	293	(40)
Socially Constructed Identities	294	(1)
Sameness and Difference	295	(5)
Gender	300	(6)
Sexuality	306	(8)
Other Peoples and Landscapes	314	(6)
Identity, Resistance, Landscape	320	(6)
Individual and Group Rights	326	(3)
Concluding Comments	329	(1)
Further Reading	330	(3)
Chapter 9 Living in Place	333	(46)
Revisiting Place and People	334	(4)
Imagining Places	338	(12)
Writing and Reading Places	350	(16)
Consuming Places	366	(9)
Concluding Comments	375	(1)
Further Reading	375	(4)
Chapter 10 Cultural Geography—Continuing and Unfolding	379	(7)
Cultural Landscapes	379	(1)
Global Cultural Geographies	380	(1)
Difference and Others	381	(1)
Subdiscipline or Heterotopia?	382	(3)
Further Reading	385	(1)
Glossary	386	(15)
References	401	(44)
Index	445