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This new and comprehensive book offers a holistic introduction to cultural geography. It integrates the broad range of theories and practices of the discipline by arguing that the essential focus of cultural geography is place. The book builds an accessible and engaging configuration of this important concept through arguing that place should be understood as an ongoing composition of traces.

The book presents specific chapters outlining the history of cultural geography, before and beyond representation, as well as the methods and techniques of doing cultural geography. It investigates the places and traces of corporate capitalism, nationalism, ethnicity, youth culture and the place of the body. Throughout these chapters case study examples will be used to illustrate how these places are taken and made by particular cultures, examples include the Freedom Tower in New York City, the Berlin Wall, the Gaza Strip, Banksy graffiti, and anti-capitalist protest movements. The book discusses the role of power in cultural place-making, as well as the ethical dimensions of doing cultural geography.

Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces offers a broad-based overview of cultural geography, ideal for students being introduced to the discipline through either undergraduate or postgraduate degree courses. The book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci and methodological techniques of cultural geography illuminate and make sense of the places we inhabit and contribute to. This is a timely synthesis that aims to incorporate a vast knowledge foundation and by doing so it will also prove invaluable for lecturers and academics alike.

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

Contenuti:

1. Introduction  2. The History of Cultural Geography  3. Branching Out: Twenty-First Century Developments in the Family Tree of Cultural Geography  4. Knowing (Your) Place  5. Taking and Making Place: the Stuff of Power  6. Counter Cultures: Global, Corporate, and Anti-Capitalisms  7. The Place of Nature  8. The Place of Ethnicity  9. Senses of Place: Scales and Beliefs  10. Making and Marking New Places: The Cultural Geographies of Youth  11. (B)ordering the Body  12. Swimming in Context: Doing Cultural Geography in Practice  13. A Culturally Geographical Approach to Place

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  • EditoreRoutledge
  • Data di pubblicazione2009
  • ISBN 10 0415430542
  • ISBN 13 9780415430548
  • RilegaturaCopertina rigida
  • Numero edizione1
  • Numero di pagine240
  • Valutazione libreria

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