A Companion to Cultural Geography

by Duncan, James; Johnson, Nuala C.; Schein, Richard H.

• ISBN13: 9780631230502
• ISBN10: 0631230505
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-05
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 40 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study. The volume starts by charting the most significant changes in cultural geography in the twentieth century before going on to introduce the principal approaches animating work in the field today. These theoretical approaches are then grounded in a series of essays on the major thematic areas to which cultural geographers have contributed ---nature, identity, landscape, colonialism, and post-colonialism. The Companion will be a valuable resource not just for geographers but also for those working in allied fields who seek a clear understanding of the contribution that geography is making to cross-disciplinary debates.

Author Biography

James S. Duncan is Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Nuala C. Johnson is Reader at Queen's University, Belfast.

Richard H. Schein is Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	viii
List of Figures and Tables	xiii
1 Introduction	1	(8)
James S. Duncan, Nuala C. Johnson, and Richard H. Schein
Part I Introducing Cultural Geographies	9	(40)
2 Cultural Traditions	11	(13)
Richard H. Schein
3 Cultural Turns	24	(14)
Heidi Scott
4 A Critique of the Cultural Turn	38	(13)
Clive Barnett
Part II Theoretical Intersections	49	(88)
5 Historical Materialism and Marxism	51	(15)
Don Mitchell
6 Feminisms	66	(13)
Joanne Sharp
7 Poststructuralism	79	(29)
Deborah P. Dixon and John Paul Jones III
8 Psychoanalytic Approaches	108	(13)
Paul Kingsbury
9 Performance and Performativity: A Geography of Unknown Lands	121	(16)
Nigel Thrift
Part III Nature/Culture	137	(84)
10 Cultures of Science	139	(12)
David N. Livingstone
11 Nature and Culture: On the Career of a False Problem	151	(29)
Bruce Braun
12 Cultural Ecology	180	(14)
Paul Robbins
13 Environmental History	194	(15)
Gerry Kearns
14 Ethics and the Human Environment	209	(12)
Jonathan M. Smith
Part IV Culture And Identity	221	(108)
15 Nationalism	223	(15)
John Agnew
16 Critical 'Race' Approaches to Cultural Geography	238	(12)
Audrey Kobayashi
17 Social Class	250	(15)
Nancy Duncan and Stephen Legg
18 Sexuality	265	(14)
Richard Phillips
19 The Body	279	(19)
Michael Landzelius
20 Consumption	298	(18)
James Kneale and Claire Dwyer
21 Public Memory	316	(13)
Nuala C. Johnson
Part V Landscapes	329	(118)
22 Economic Landscapes	331	(16)
Susan Roberts
23 Political Landscapes	347	(18)
Karen E. Till
24 Religious Landscapes	365	(17)
Lily Kong
25 Landscapes of Home	382	(22)
James S. Duncan and David Lambert
26 Landscapes of Childhood and Youth	404	(16)
Elizabeth A. Gagen
27 Landscape in Film	420	(10)
Robert Shannan Peckham
28 Landscape and Art	430	(17)
Stephen Daniels
Part VI Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies	447	(66)
29 Imperial Geographies	449	(20)
Daniel Clayton
30 Postcolonial Geographies	469	(16)
James R. Ryan
31 Diaspora	485	(14)
Carl Dahlman
32 Transnationalism	499	(14)
Cheryl McEwan
Index	513