Description
Addresses both social and cultural geography in a single volume, authored and edited by leading authorities in the fields
The Companion to Social and Cultural Geography provides reliable and up-to-date coverage of both foundational topics and emerging themes within two vibrant and increasingly interconnected subdisciplines of geography. Building upon the Companion to Cultural Geography first published in 2013, editors Ishan Ashutosh and Jamie Winders offer an expertly curated collection of original essays with special emphasis on early-career scholars, geographers of color, and geographers from the Global South.
Organized thematically, the Companion opens with a series of "Global Dispatches" from cultural and social geographers working in different disciplines and locations, followed by explorations of key concepts in social and cultural geography such as identity, belonging, solidarity, inequalities, and intersectional geographies. Subsequent chapters examine a wide range of cultural and social geographies, including creativity, technologies, science, nature, memory, tourism, migration, labor, and religion. Throughout the Companion, authors share fresh insights into the racial reckonings of late, ongoing issues related to climate change, the consequences of COVID-19, and more.
Across its 46 chapters, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography:
- Examines how approaches to human-environment dynamics in social and cultural geography help shed light on current challenges
- Covers critical topics such as justice, protest, borders, public health, urban planning, indigeneity, genders, class, race, and sexualities
- Emphasizes the value of a geographic perspective to understanding social and cultural dynamics
- Discusses how geography has confronted its deep connections to colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy
- Addresses a range of emerging and established themes, including queer and transgender geographies, Black geographies, animal geographies, and cultural geographies of states
- Incorporates a diversity of writing styles, narratives, and analyses, such as interviews, conversations, short essays, autobiography, and autoethnography
Accessible, authoritative, and highly relevant to today's students, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography is an essential textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on social or cultural geography, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and ethnic studies.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
Ishan Ashutosh and Jamie Winders
Global Dispatches on Cultural and Social Geography
1 Lessons from COVID, If We Will Just Listen 15
Susan Craddock
2 Duture Neza, Duture Heza: Planning and Building a "Liberal Peace" 23
Delia Duong Ba Wendel
3 Social/Cultural Geography in/on the "Middle East" 37
Karen Culcasi
4 Social and Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia and East Asia: Inter-Asian Connections and Connectivities 45
Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
Foundational Concepts in Cultural and Social Geography
5 Place 55
Mary Gilmartin
6 "Non-"/"More-than-" Representational Theories 65
Ben Anderson
7 Mappings 79
Arnisson Andre C. Ortega
8 Inequalities 95
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
9 Intersectional Geographies 107
Ellen Kohl, Cristina Faiver-Serna, and Tianna Bruno
10 Solidarity 121
Paul Griffin
11 Virtual Environments, Material Relations: Theorizing Virtual Reality in the Context of Environmental Crisis 131
Claire Fitch
Cultural and Social Belonging
12 Race 145
Mabel Denzin Gergan
13 Black Geographies 159
Brandi T. Summers and Juleon Robinson
14 Genders 171
Emily Mitchell-Eaton interviewing Anindita Datta
15 Class 181
Brian Hennigan
16 Queer and Transgender Geographies 195
Daniel Cockayne
17 Nationalism, Populism 207
Angharad Closs Stephens
18 Cuerpo-Territorio and Indigenous Geographies Otherwise: Epistemological Irreverences and Embodying Territorialities in Praxis 217
Nohely Guzmán
19 Aging across the Life Course 233\
Menusha De Silva
20 Ability 243
Robert Wilton and Edward Hall
Cultural and Social Geographies of...
21 Creativities/Performance 257
Harriet Hawkins
22 The Visual 269
Antje Schlottmann and Judith Miggelbrink
23 Sound and Aural Geographies 285
Christabel Devadoss
24 Futures 297
Tim Bunnell and Si Jie Ivin Yeo
25 Memory and Reckoning 309
Jordan Brasher, Derek H. Alderman, and Mark Rhodes
26 Production/Labor/Work 323
Kathryne Gravestock, Véronique Sioufi, and Kendra Strauss
27 Cultural Geographies of States 335
Suncana Laketa
28 Geological, Oceanic, Ontological: Reorienting Cultural and Social Geographies of Nature 345
Matthew Himley and Andrea Marston
29 Science 359
Casey R. Lynch and Kerri Jean Ormerod
30 Tourism, Leisure, and Consumption: Chinese Tourists in Macau 371
Tim Simpson and Benjamin Kidder Hodges
31 Animal Geographies 385
Jamie Lorimer
32 Cultural Geographies of Food 397
Catarina Passidomo
33 Migration 411
Ishan Ashutosh
34 Digital Lives/Spaces 425
James Ash
35 Affect-Emotions 435
Avril Maddrell
36 Rural Geography 445
Peter B. Nelson
37 Centering Urban Autoethnographies on the Margins 459
Stefano Bloch
38 Suburban(ism) 471
Alison L. Bain and Julie A. Podmore
39 Home and Domestic Space 483
Mel Nowicki
40 Religion 493
Orlando Woods
41 Care Geographies: Work, Home, and Bodies 505
Samantha Thompson and Kim England
Struggles
42 Humanizing Climate Change 519
Eve Z. Bratman
43 Borders 535
Ilaria Giglioli
44 From Postcolonial to Decolonial 545
Declan Cullen, Jamie Winders, and James Ryan
45 Protest 557
Nicholas Jon Crane
46 Justice 569
Phil Neel, Drew Heiderscheidt, and Jennifer Watkins
Index 579
