A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 35 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study.
- Provides accessible overviews of key themes, debates and controversies from a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points
- Charts significant changes in cultural geography in the twentieth century as well as the principal approaches that currently animate work in the field
- A valuable resource not just for geographers but also those working in allied fields who wish to get a clear understanding of the contribution geography is making to cross-disciplinary debates
Table of Content
Notes on Contributors viii
List of Figures and Tables xiii
1 Introduction 1
James S. Duncan, Nuala C. Johnson, and Richard H. Schein
Part I Introducing Cultural Geographies 9
2 Cultural Traditions 11
Richard H. Schein
3 Cultural Turns 24
Heidi Scott
4 A Critique of the Cultural Turn 38
Clive Barnett
Part II Theoretical Intersections 49
5 Historical Materialism and Marxism 51
Don Mitchell
6 Feminisms 66
Joanne Sharp
7 Poststructuralism 79
Deborah P. Dixon and John Paul Jones III
8 Psychoanalytic Approaches 108
Paul Kingsbury
9 Performance and Performativity: A Geography of Unknown Lands 121
Nigel Thrift
Part III Nature/Culture 137
10 Cultures of Science 139
David N. Livingstone
11 Nature and Culture: On the Career of a False Problem 151
Bruce Braun
12 Cultural Ecology 180
Paul Robbins
13 Environmental History 194
Gerry Kearns
14 Ethics and the Human Environment 209
Jonathan M. Smith
Part IV Culture And Identity 221
15 Nationalism 223
John Agnew
16 Critical ‘Race’ Approaches to Cultural Geography 238
Audrey Kobayashi
17 Social Class 250
Nancy Duncan and Stephen Legg
18 Sexuality 265
Richard Phillips
19 The Body 279
Michael Landzelius
20 Consumption 298
James Kneale and Claire Dwyer
21 Public Memory 316
Nuala C. Johnson
Part V Landscapes 329
22 Economic Landscapes 331
Susan Roberts
23 Political Landscapes 347
Karen E. Till
24 Religious Landscapes 365
Lily Kong
25 Landscapes of Home 382
James S. Duncan and David Lambert
26 Landscapes of Childhood and Youth 404
Elizabeth A. Gagen
27 Landscape in Film 420
Robert Shannan Peckham
28 Landscape and Art 430
Stephen Daniels
Part VI Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies 447
29 Imperial Geographies 449
Daniel Clayton
30 Postcolonial Geographies 469
James R. Ryan
31 Diaspora 485
Carl Dahlman
32 Transnationalism 499
Cheryl Mc Ewan
Index 513
About the author
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.
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