Mapping Worlds: International Perspectives on Social and Cultural Geographies

ISBN-13: 9780415494908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 380 str.

Kitchin Rob

Opis

Social and cultural geography is practised by geographers from around the world. However, for various reasons including language and publishing traditions, knowledge of the research being undertaken can often remain confined to those working within those countries. This book draws together, for the first time into one volume, reports of social and cultural geography undertaken in several countries from around the world. It provides an important overview of geographic ideas and traditions, and the history of human geography more generally, allowing comparison between countries and details of key studies and references. As such, the book will be of interest to geographers schooled in different national traditions, and those interested in the production and history of geographic knowledge. Entries are written in both English and the country's own national language.

Spis treści

1. Mapping Worlds  2. On Being 'In-Between': Social and Cultural Geography in Denmark  3. A Vision of Social and Cultural Geography in France  4. Recent Developments in Social and Cultural Geography in Spain  5. Eclectic and Pragmatic: The Colours of Dutch Social and Cultural Geography  6. Geographical Practice in Mexico: The Cultural Geography Project  7. Seeking African Solutions: The New Social and Cultural Geographies of South Africa  8. British Social and Cultural Geography: Beyond Turns and Dualisms?  9. Zionist Homelandscapes (and Their Constitution) in Israeli Geography  10. Brazilian Studies in Cultural Geography  11. Social and Cultural Geographies of South East Asia  12. Glimpses of Social and Cultural Geography in Canada and Quebec at the Turn of the Millennium.  13. The Ambiguities of Social and Cultural Geography in Greece.  14. Between National and International Pressures: Contextualizing the Progress of Finnish Social and Cultural Geography  15. Social and Cultural Geographies of Australia  16. Italian Cultural Geography, or the History of a Prolific Absence  17. Overlapping Territories: Social and Cultural Geography in Ireland  18. Directions to Enlarge our Worlds? Social and Cultural Geography in New Zealand  19. Emerging, Submerging and Persisting Ideas: Is There Social and Cultural Geography in Estonia?  20. The Transformation of Social and Cultural Geography During the Transition Period (1989 to Present Time) in Hungary.  21. The Development of Social and Cultural Geographies in Taiwan: Knowledge Production and Social Relevance  22. Social Geography in the United States: Everywhere and Nowhere

O autorze

Rob Kitchin