Cultural Georgaphy: Critical Concepts In The Social Sciences

Description:
Cultural Geography is one of the most vibrant areas of geographical research and encompasses a wide range of issues. In the 1930's, when the term was introduced from Germany to the United States, it was typically used to refer to the expression of culture in landscape - i.e. ways in which culturally diverse societies adapted to and modified the earth's surface. The term has now come to encompass all applications of the concept of culture to geographical themes - for example, the study of space, place and time in culture and the analysis of cultural elements such as artefacts, tools, techniques, attitudes, customs, languages and religious beliefs. Providing both a retrospective as well as a prospective take on modern cultural geography, this collection provides a range of diverse material. The volumes constitute both an historical resource, tracking the marking of the field, and a map of contemporary themes and obsessions. A distinctive feature of the editorial selection is its emphasis on the multiplicity of theoretical and substantive concerns in cultural geography over and above the 'classical' interests in elite cultural practices and representational approaches to cultural politics. This enlargement of the compass of cultural geography emphasises its interfaces with science studies, cultural studies, post-colonial studies and environmental history. The collection is in four parts with new introductions to each volume. The first volume addresses the history and practices of contemporary cultural geography itself, from writing to exploration. The second focuses on the cultural politics of identity. The third examines the diversity of senses through which cultural worlds are inhabited. The fourth volume explores the materialities of cultural practice and approaches that admit the non-human into the company of cultural geography.

Table of Contents:
Volume 1: Cultural Geography Foundations 1. Denis Cosgrove and Peter Jackson, 'New directions in cultural geography', Area, 19, 2, 1987, pp. 95-101. 2. James Duncan, 'The Superorganic in American Cultural Geography', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 70, 2, 1980, pp. 181-198 Maps 3. J. B. Harley, 'Deconstructing the Map', Cartographica, 26, 2, 1989, pp. 1-20. Survey 4. David Matless, 'Regional surveys and local knowledges: the geographical imagination in Britain', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 17, 1992, pp. 464-480. 5. Nadine Schuurman and Geraldine, 'Care of the Subject: feminism and critiques of GIS, Gender, Place and Culture, 9, 3, 2002, pp. 291-299., Fieldwork 6. Felix Driver, 'Geographical Knowledge, Exploration and Empire', in Geography Militant. Cultures of Exploration and Empire (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001) pp. 1-23. 7. Holly M. Hapke and Devan Ayyankeril, 'Of 'Loose' Women and 'Guides', or, Relationships in the Field', Geographical Review, 91, 1-2, 2001, pp. 342-352. Exploration 8. Michael T. Bravo, 'Ethnographic navigation and the geographical gift', in D. Livingstone and C. Withers (eds.) Enlightenment and Geography, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), pp. 199-235. 9. Denis Cosgrove, 'Contested global visions: One-world, Whole-Earth, and the Apollo space photographs', Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 84, 2, 1994, pp. 270-294. Volume 2: Self, Identity and Consumption Situating the Self 10. Gillian Rose, 'Situating knowledges: positionality, reflexivities and other tactics', Progress in Human Geography, 21, 3, 1997, pp. 305-320. 11. Yi-Fu Tuan 'Rootedness versus Sense of Place', Landscape, 24, 1, 1980, pp. 3-8. Sexuality & Identity 12.Linda McDowell and Gill Court, 'Performing work: bodily representations in merchant banks', Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 12, 1994, pp. 727-750. 13. David Bell and John Binnie, 'All hyped up and no place to go', Gender Place and Culture, 1, 1, 1994, pp. 31-47. Geography of the Body 14. Steve Pile, 'Introduction' in Heidi J. Nast and Steve Pile, eds., 'Places Through the Body' (London: Routledge, 1998). 15. Alistair Bonnett and Anoop Nayak, 'Cultural Geographies of Racialization OR Something by Alan Pred on the 'Black Swede'. TBC. The Consuming Self 16. Peter Jackson, 'Commodity cultures: the traffic in things', Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 24, 1999, pp. 95-108. 17. Nicky Gregson and Louise Crewe, 'Dusting Dow