Full Description
Cultural Geography: Environments, Landscapes, Identities, Inequalities explores the relationship between people and the places they live in by analyzing cultural identities and cultural landscapes on both local and global scales. The new edition of Cultural Geography introduces co-author Margaret Walton-Roberts, whose familiarity with contemporary practices in the discipline ensures a good balance between traditional and modern approaches to cultural geography. Ultimately, these approaches demonstrate cultural geography's relation to other areas of geographic interest and the impact it has on them, particularly social, economic, political, environmental, and physical geography. The text has been revised and updated, with enhanced discussion of identity and power, socio-spatial relationships, hybridity and nature, feminism, and Marxism, making it more appropriate for today's student. Boxed features, questions for critical thought, and suggested further readings enhance student engagement and study.
Contents
LIST OF FIGURES, TABLES, BOXES, AND PHOTO ESSAYS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. INTRODUCING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; DOING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT; WHAT IS CULTURE?; THEMES IN CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; FURTHER READING; 2. THE TRADITION OF CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; THREE QUESTIONS; SEPARATING HUMANS AND NATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINISM; HUMAN USE OF NATURE; THE LANDSCAPE SCHOOL; TOWARD HOLISTIC EMPHASES; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; FURTHER READING; 3. RETHINKING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; MARXISMS; HUMANISMS; BEHAVIORAL GEOGRAPHIES; FEMINIST THOUGHT; THE CULTURAL TURN; THE MODE OF REPRESENTATION; CONDUCTING RESEARCH; STUDYING SOCIETY; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; FURTHER READING; 4. ENVIRONMENTS, ETHICS, LANDSCAPES; ECOLOGY: A UNIFYING SCIENCE?; RETHINKING ECOLOGICAL APPROACHES; ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; FURTHER READING; 5. LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PROVIDING CONTEXT; CULTURAL DIFFUSION; CULTURAL CONTACT AND TRANSFER; SHAPING LANDSCAPES; IMAGINING PAST LANDSCAPES; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; FURTHER READING; 6. REGIONAL LANDSCAPES; WHAT ARE CULTURAL REGIONS?; FORMING CULTURAL REGIONS IN THE UNITED STATES; REGIONS AS HOMELANDS; SHAPING THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD; GLOBAL REGIONS; A CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF OUR UNEQUAL WORLD; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; FURTHER READING; 7. POWER, IDENTITY, GLOBAL LANDSCAPES; LINKING IDENTITY AND POWER; THE MISTAKEN IDEA OF RACE; THE REALITY OF RACISM; ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; FURTHER READING; 8. POWER, IDENTITY, REPRESENTATION; DISCOURSE AND POWER; IDENTITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY; IDENTITY AND INTERSECTIONALITY; THE PRACTICE OF RESEARCH, KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION, AND REPRESENTATION; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; FURTHER READING; 9. LIVING IN PLACE: THE SOCIO-SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP; REVISITING PLACE AND PEOPLE AND THE RECURSIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM; THE RECURSIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SOCIAL AND THE SPATIAL; A SOCIO-SPATIAL PORTFOLIO: ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LINK BETWEEN PLACE AND IDENTITY; PUBLIC ART AND PLACE: THE ANGEL OF THE NORTH; CONCLUDING COMMENTS; FURTHER READING; 10. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY-CONTINUING AND UNFOLDING; CULTURAL LANDSCAPES; GLOBAL CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES; DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY; THE PAST IS PROLOGUE; AN INTEGRATED HUMAN GEOGRAPHY?; LOOKING FORWARD; FURTHER READING; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX
