Cultural Geography

by Crang,Mike

• ISBN13: 9780415140829
• ISBN10: 041514082X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The so-called "cultural turn" in contemporary geography has brought new ways of thinking about geography and culture and taken cultural geography into exciting new terrain to produce new maps of space and place.Cultural Geographyis the first book to introduce culture from a geographical perspective. It tracks the ideas, practices and objects that together form cultures--and how these cultures form identities for individuals and populations. Crang examines a range of scales as he considers the role of states, empires and nations, firms and corporations, shops and goods, books and films, in creating identities.Cultural Geographylooks at the way different processes come together in particular places and how those places develop meanings for people, whether at a global scale or the intimate scale of everyday life. This text features clear writing, boxed case studies, chapter summaries, further reading guides and a glossary of key terms.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vi
List of boxes	vii
Acknowledgements	viii
Locating culture	1	(13)
People, landscapes and time	14	(13)
The symbolic landscape	27	(16)
Literary landscapes: writing and geography	43	(16)
Self and other: writing home, marking territory and writing space	59	(22)
Multiply mediated environments: film, TV and music	81	(19)
Place or space?	100	(20)
Geographies of commodities and consumption	120	(22)
Cultures of production	142	(19)
Nations, homelands and belonging in hybrid worlds	161	(16)
Cultures of science: translation and knowledge	177	(11)
Glossary	188	(7)
References	195	(11)
Index	206