Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm
Reihe: Critical Introductions to Geography
ISBN: 978-1-118-72352-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Introduction to Cultural Geography makes the case for why thinking geographically about culture matters. Across its chapters, the book examines how cultural geographers have approached the relationship between geography and culture through topics from house floor plans and international migration to colonialism and digital geographies.
The book’s first section develops a conceptual framework for studying cultural geography and its key concepts. From there, its chapters look at how and where people make and claim place across four spheres of our everyday lives: dwelling, moving, working, and playing. The book’s final section addresses debates around materialities, assemblages, and artificial intelligence. Each chapter pairs theoretical engagement with concrete examples that enable readers to apply key concepts to the world around them.
Introduction to Cultural Geography: - Features topics that resonate with students today, including artificial intelligence, social media, and contemporary cultural politics
- Presents complex ideas, theories and concepts in an accessible form
- Covers a wide range of themes such as tourism, memory and heritage, social movements, and pop culture with both historical and contemporary case studies
Written with multiple audiences in mind, Introduction to Cultural Geography is a great resource for instructors and scholars seeking a current survey of theoretical debates and a compelling way to help students understand the world around them. Written for both students who are new to cultural geography and scholars already familiar with the field, this book is an essential read for all human geographers.
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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
Part I Framing Cultural Geography 1
1 What Is Geography? 3
Thinking Like Geographers 3
Thinking Geographically: Key Concepts 6
Place 6
Space 9
Scale 11
Landscape 13
Thinking Critically? 16
Notes 17
2 What Is Cultural Geography? 19
Introduction 19
What Is Culture? 19
What Is Cultural Geography? 25
Traditional Cultural Geography 26
New Cultural Geography 28
More-Than-Representational Cultural Geography 31
Fighting Academics 32
Conclusion, or Beginning? 33
Notes 35
3 Identity 37
Introduction 37
Thinking About Identity 37
How to Think About Identity 40
Identity, Part 2: From Chinatown to Xuxa: Place, Race, and Migration 44
Creating Vancouver’s Chinatown 44
Race and Gender in Motion: Xuxa Comes to America 48
Conclusion 50
Notes 51
4 History and Memory 53
Introduction 53
Memory-Work 54
Heritage 56
(Post)colonializing Geography 58
Spatial Politics of Memory in Cape Verde: Memory, Landscape, and Heritage in Cape Verde 62
Conclusion 65
Notes 67
5 Borders 68
Introduction 68
Understanding Borders 69
Power of the State 72
A Borderless World or a World of Borders: Cultural Differences, Cultural Transformations 76
Conclusion 81
Notes 83
Part II Making Cultural Geographies 85
6 Cultural Geographies of Dwelling 87
Introduction 87
Cultural Geographies of Home 88
Domestic Architecture 91
Home Life 101
Material Artifacts: Dwelling with Technology 102
Conclusion 105
Notes 106
7 Moving 107
Introduction 107
Mobility 108
Cultural Geographies of Migration 109
Multiculturalism 116
Migration, National Identity, and Cultural Differences 118
The Middle East and Immigration 120
Conclusion 121
Notes 122
8 Working 124
Introduction 124
What and Where Is Work? 124
Placing Work 128
Work That Doesn’t Count 130
Social Liberalism and Keynesianism 132
Care Work and Gender in Canada 134
Ontario’s Home Health Care: Privatizing Care in the Home 135
Canada’s Live-In Caregiver Program 136
Conclusion 138
Notes 139
9 Playing 141
Introduction 141
Cultural Geographies of Tourism: Play, Work, Politics 143
From Travels to Tourism 143
Tensions of Travel: How Not to Be a Tourist 146
Contemporary Tourism 148
Is Tourism Production or Consumption? Play or Work? 151
Working and Living in Tourism 152
Conclusion 153
Notes 154
Part III Studying Cultural Geographies 155
10 Making Sense of the World: (More Than?) Representation? 157
Introduction 157
The Work of Representation 158
Maps, Representation, and Power 160
More Than Words? More Than Representation? 163
“The puzzling ‘matter’ of the body” 168
Notes 172
11 Things 174
Introduction 174
Material Cultures, Materialities 175
Do Things Really Matter? 179
Mobile Phones in Mobile Lives 182
Mobile Lives in Tanzania 184
Follow That Phone! 185
So…? 187
Notes 188
12 Digital Geographies 189
Introduction 189
Digital Lives: Technological and Social Worlds 190
Does Distance Still Matter? 191
Digital and Real Communities 192
Who Are We Online? 195
Material Geographies of Digital Worlds 198
Digital Geographies and Digital Divides 198
Digital Infrastructures 201
Conclusion 203
Notes 204
13 Social Movements: How to Be Heard in a Fractured World? 205
Introduction 205
Why, What, and How to Resist? 206
Where to Resist? 208
Mexico, 1968: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 210
Ya basta! The Zapatistas 214
#OccupyEverywhere 217
Conclusion 219
Notes 220
14 Assemblages: Putting Cultural Geography Back Together Again? 221
From Binaries … 223
… to Cyborgs 225
(Re)Assembling Cultural Geography? 227
Critiquing Assemblages 229
Conclusion 231
Notes 232
15 Futures 233
Algorithmic Assemblages 234
Vignette 1: Algorithmic Communities 235
Vignette 2: Algorithmic Visions/Dreams? 238
Vignette 3: Algorithms and Cultural Production 240
So, what…? 243
Notes 244
Works Cited 246
Index 000
