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A companion to cultural geography [electronic resource].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Nuala Christina, 1962-
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to geography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human geography.
- Local Subjects:
- Human geography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (546 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken : Wiley, 2008.
- Summary:
- A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 35 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study. Provides accessible overviews of key themes, debates and controversies from a variety of historical and theoretical vantage pointsCharts significant changes in cultural geography in the twentieth century as well as the principal approaches that currently animate work in the fieldA valuable resource not just for geographers but also those working in allied fields who wish to
- Contents:
- A Companion to Cultural Geography; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; 1 Introduction; Part I Introducing Cultural Geographies; 2 Cultural Traditions; 3 Cultural Turns; 4 A Critique of the Cultural Turn; Part II Theoretical Intersections; 5 Historical Materialism and Marxism; 6 Feminisms; 7 Poststructuralism; 8 Psychoanalytic Approaches; 9 Performance and Performativity: A Geography of Unknown Lands; Part III Nature/Culture; 10 Cultures of Science; 11 Nature and Culture: On the Career of a False Problem; 12 Cultural Ecology; 13 Environmental History
- 14 Ethics and the Human EnvironmentPart IV Culture And Identity; 15 Nationalism; 16 Critical 'Race' Approaches to Cultural Geography; 17 Social Class; 18 Sexuality; 19 The Body; 20 Consumption; 21 Public Memory; Part V Landscapes; 22 Economic Landscapes; 23 Political Landscapes; 24 Religious Landscapes; 25 Landscapes of Home; 26 Landscapes of Childhood and Youth; 27 Landscape in Film; 28 Landscape and Art; Part VI Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies; 29 Imperial Geographies; 30 Postcolonial Geographies; 31 Diaspora; 32 Transnationalism; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- OCLC:
- 437065660
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