Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces

ISBN-13: 9780367414948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 280 str.

Jon Anderson

Opis

This book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci, and methodological techniques of cultural geography make sense of the ‘culture wars’ that define our time. It showcases how this discipline can be used to understand these battles and how we can engage in them. 

Spis treści

Part I: Introducing cultural geography 1. Forward!  2. Why cultural geography?  Part II: Cultural geography then and now: the history of the discipline  3. The history of cultural geography  4. Branching out: twenty-first-century developments in the family tree of cultural geography  Part III: Place and power  5. Knowing (your) places  6. Taking and making places: traces and the stuff of power  7. Senses of place: scales and beliefs  Part IV: Money, movement, and the more-than-human  8. The places and traces of capitalism: global, corporate, and anti-capitalisms  9. The places and traces of mobility  10. The places and traces of language  11. The places and traces of nature  Part V: Culture and identity  12. The places and traces of the body  13. The places and traces of race and ethnicity  14. The places and traces of gender  15. The places and traces of sexuality  16. The places and traces of youth  Part VI: Doing cultural geography  17. Doing cultural geography in practice  Part VII: Conclusions  18. A cultural geography approach to places and traces 

O autorze

Jon Anderson is a Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK. His research interests focus on the relations between identity, culture, and place; in particular the actions, practices, and politics that such relations produce.