Culture and Society: Critical Essays in Human Geography

ISBN-13: 9780815388418 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 522 str.

Nuala C. Johnson

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This volume explores the relationships between space, culture and society. Organised around four broad themes - landscape, identity, colonialism, nature - and covering a variety of locations and historical periods, the essays represent some of the best and most innovative interventions that geographers have made on these topics.

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Contents: Introduction; Part I Spaces of Interpretation: Landscape and the obliteration of practice, Tim Cresswell. Part II Landscapes and Cultures: The myth and the stones of Venice: an historical geography of a symbolic landscape, Denis Cosgrove; Geography as an art, D.W. Meinig; Reclaiming vision: looking at landscape and the body, Catherine Nash; The place of landscape: a conceptual framework for interpreting an American scene, Richard H. Schein; Japanese landscape gardens in Edwardian England: landscape and transculturation, Setsu Tachibana, Stephen Daniels and Charles Watkins. Part III Making and Marking Identities: Urban graffiti as territorial markers, David Ley and Roman Cybriwsky; Monument and myth, David Harvey; Back to the land: historiography, rurality and the nation in inter-war Wales, Pyrs Gruffudd; Once-upon-a-time in the commodity world: an unofficial guide to the mall of America, Jon Goss; Gendered politics and nationalised homes: women and the anti-colonial struggle in Delhi, 1930-47, Stephen Legg. Part IV Space, Imperialism and Postcolonialism: Between the book and the lamp: imaginative geographies of Egypt, 1849-50, Derek Gregory; Kooramindanjie: place and the postcolonial,Jackie Huggins, Rita Huggins and Jane M. Jacobs; Paradise or pandemonium? West African landscapes in the travel accounts of Victorian women, Cheryl McEwan; Embodying colonialism? Domination and resistance in 19th-century Ceylonese coffee plantations, James S. Duncan; Colonialism's afterlife: vision and visuality on the Northwest coast, Bruce Braun. Part V Cultures of Nature and Science: Science, observation and entertainment: competing visions of post-war British natural history television, 1946-1967, Gail Davies; 'Illusory riches': representations of the tropical world, 1840-1950, David Arnold; Race, space and moral climatology: notes toward a genealogy, David N. Livingstone; Cultures of knowledge: investigating intellectual property rights and relations in the Pacif