A Companion to Cultural Geography

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

• ISBN13: 9781405175654
• ISBN10: 1405175656
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-08
• 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	p. viii
List of Figures and Tables	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Introducing Cultural Geographies	p. 9
Cultural Traditions	p. 11
Cultural Turns	p. 24
A Critique of the Cultural Turn	p. 38
Theoretical Intersections	p. 49
Historical Materialiasm and Marxism	p. 51
Feminisms	p. 66
Poststructuralism	p. 79
Psychoanalytic Approaches	p. 108
Performance and Performativity: A Geography of Unknown Lands	p. 121
Nature/Culture	p. 137
Cultures of Science	p. 139
Nature and Culture: On the Career of a False Problem	p. 151
Cultural Ecology	p. 180
Environmental History	p. 194
Ethics and the Human Environment	p. 209
Culture And Identity	p. 221
Nationalism	p. 223
Critical 'Race' Approaches to Cultural Geography	p. 238
Social Class	p. 250
Sexuality	p. 265
The Body	p. 279
Consumption	p. 298
Public Memory	p. 316
Landscapes	p. 329
Economic Landscapes	p. 331
Political Landscapes	p. 347
Religious Landscapes	p. 365
Landscapes of Home	p. 382
Landscapes of Childhood and Youth	p. 404
Landscape in Film	p. 420
Landscape and Art	p. 430
Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies	p. 447
Imperial Geographies	p. 449
Postcolonial Geographies	p. 469
Diaspora	p. 485
Transnationalism	p. 499
Index	p. 513
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