Cultural Geography Reader

Name: Cultural Geography Reader
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ISBN: 9780415418744

ISBN-10: 0415418747

ISBN-13: 9780415418744

Edition: 2008

Authors: Timothy Oakes, Patricia L. Price, Tim Oakes, Patricia Lynn Price

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The readability, broad scope and coverage of both classic and contemporary pieces from the US and UK makes The Cultural Geography Reader relevant and accessible for a broad audience of undergraduate and graduate students. Bridging the different national traditions in the USA and UK, as well as introducing the span of classic and new cultural geography, it is divided into nine sections: approaching culture, cultural geography a trans-Atlantic journey, landscape, nature, place, mobility, home homeland - rootedness, difference and exclusion, and the business of culture. Each section begins with an introduction that discusses the key concept, its history and relation to cultural geography and…

Book details

List price: $76.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/25/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 12
Size: 7.48" wide x 9.65" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English



General Introduction



Approaching Culture.


Introduction.


'Culture'



'Community'



'Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture'



'The Concept(s) of Culture'



'Writing Against Culture'



'Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference'



'Research, Performance, and Doing Human Geography: Some Reflections on the Diary-Photograph, Diary-Interview Method'




Cultural Geography: A Transatlantic Genealogy.


Introduction. 'Culture'



'The Physiogamy of France'



'The Morphology of Landscape'



'The Industrial Revolution and the Landscape'



'Process'



'The Idea of German Cultural Regions in the Third Reich: The Work of Franz Petri'



'The Search for the Common Ground: Estyn Evans's Ireland'



'Back to the Land: Historiography, Rurality and the Nation in Interwar Wales'




Landscape


Introduction


'The Word Itself'



'California: The Beautiful and the Damned'



'Imperial Landscape'



'Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power'



'Geography is Everywhere: Culture and Symbolism in Human Landscapes'



'From Discourse to Landscape: A Kingly Reading'



'Reconfiguring the "Site" and "Horizon" of Experience'




Nature


Introduction


'Nature'



'Creating a Second Nature'



'Living Outdoors with Mrs. Panther' 'Ajax'.


'Nature at Home'



'Orchard'



'Le Pratique Sauvage: Race, Place, and the Human-Animal Divide'




Identity and Place in a Global Context


Introduction


'A Global Sense of Place'



'New Cultures for Old?'



'National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees'



'Shades of Shit'



'Culture Sits in Places: Reflections on Globalism and Subaltern Strategies of Localization'



'No Place Like Heimat: Images of Home(land)'




Home and Away


Introduction


'The Stranger'



'Traveling Cultures'



'The Production of Mobilities'



'Of Nomads and Vagrants: Single Homelessness and Narratives of Home as Place'



'The Tourist at Home'




Geographies of Difference


Introduction.


'Imaginative Geography and its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental'



'On Not Excluding Half of the Human in Human Geography'



'Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination'



'Mapping the Pure and the Defiled'



'Some Thoughts on Close(t) Spaces'



'Contested Terrain: Teenagers in Public Space'



'The Geography Club'




Culture as Resource


Introduction


'Commercial Cultures: Transcending the Cultural and the Economic'



'The Expediency of Culture'



'Whose Culture? Whose City?'



'The Invention of Regional Culture'



'Destination Museum'



'Performing Work: Bodily Representations in Merchant Banks'