Cultural Geographies

The Basics
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-89081-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: The Basics

Cultural Geographies: The Basics offers an accessible introduction to one of the most exciting and eclectic fields of academic study available to students today. It unpacks key conceptual and methodological innovations in cultural geography and outlines the new perspectives these offer for making sense of our world.

Showcasing the dynamic transformations that cultural geography brings to contemporary understandings of cultural life, this book guides its readers through an exhilarating exploration of six key problematics at the cutting-edge of geographical thought: Representation, Nature, Technology, Bodies, Politics, and Methods. Through this original approach, the book outlines a selection of the most important debates and perspectives in the field, providing readers with user-friendly introductions to key concepts like ‘affect’, ‘micropolitics’, ‘assemblage’, ‘post-phenomenology’, and the ‘more-than-human’ along the way. The book incorporates a range of engaging empirical examples to illustrate how the conceptual, methodological, and ethico-political innovations developed by cultural geographers can be used to shed new light on the most urgent challenges of our times: from the destruction of the natural world; to the emergence of new spaces and forms of political activism; to the ethical and existential implications of advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence.

This book will be essential reading for undergraduate students making their first forays into cultural geography, as well as readers and researchers from other humanities and social science disciplines (like Sociology, Media and Film Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Philosophy) interested in what a geographical approach to culture has to offer.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lapworth, Andrew

Roberts, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introducing cultural geographies, 2. (Non-)Representation, 3. Nature, 4. Technology, 5. Bodies, 6. Politics, 7. Methods, 8. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Lapworth is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UNSW Canberra, Australia. His research interests lie in contemporary cultural geography, with specific expertise in continental philosophy and its implications for geographical thought and practice; human-technology relations; art and aesthetics; and cinema and popular visual culture. His research has been published in a range of leading geographical and social science journals, including Social & Cultural Geography, Cultural Geographies, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Area, Theory, Culture & Society, and Body & Society.

Tom Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UNSW Canberra, Australia. Tom’s research explores matter and materiality across a range of cultural contexts, from science and technology to artistic practice and experimentation. His work contributes to conceptual debates in cultural geography, including more-than-human geography, relational thinking, non-anthropocentric theories of subjectivity, and non-representational research methodologies. His work is published in Progress in Human Geography, Dialogues in Human Geography, Cultural Geographies, Area, Geohumanities, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.