| Description |
1 online resource (342 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Cultural Geographies; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Authors' acknowledgements; Publisher's acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 'Cultural geography': where to begin?; 1.2 Starting points: using this book (or, we love cultural geography?); 1.3 Multiple meanings of 'culture'; 1.4 Multiple versions of 'cultural geography'; 1.5 Cultural geographies now; Summary; Part 1 Cultural processes and politics; 2 Cultural production; 2.1 Introduction: producing a cultural geography textbook; 2.2 Questioning cultural production |
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2.3 Making meanings, discourses and taste: key concepts from cultural studies2.4 Geographies of cultural production: commodity chains and the cultural industries; 2.5 Producing and regulating cultural spaces; Some key readings; Summary; Some key readings; 3 Cultural consumption; 3.1 Introducing consumption; 3.2 Consumption: doing culture; 3.3 Geographies of cultural consumption; 3.4 Consumer agency: subcultures and resistance; 3.5 Connecting cultural production and consumption; Summary; Some key readings; Part 2 Several cultural geographies; 4 Architectural geographies |
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4.1 Introduction: taking notice of buildings4.2 Why do cultural geographers study buildings?; 4.3 What are buildings -- and what do they do?; 4.4 What are buildings made of?; 4.5 What happens in and around buildings?; Summary; Some key readings; 5 Landscapes; 5.1 Introduction: landscape as ... ; 5.2 Defining 'landscape': some wordplay; 5.3 Landscape as ... material; 5.4 Landscape as ... text; 5.5 Landscape as ... performance/feeling; Summary; Some key readings; 6 Textual geographies; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Spaces/texts: changing approaches to textual geographies and the poststructural challenge |
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6.3 Geographies of fiction6.4 Policy texts and discourse analysis; 6.5 Writing worlds: maps, feminism and the stories that geographers tell; 6.6 Concluding reflections; Summary; Some key readings; 7 Performed geographies; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Musical performances; 7.3 Sporting performances; 7.4 Dance and performance art; 7.5 Performing everyday life; 7.6 Concluding comments: performing what, exactly?; Summary; Some key readings; 8 Identities; 8.1 Introduction: the complexities of identity; 8.2 Piecing together identity: essentialism and time -- space-specific identities |
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8.3 Adding complexity: social constructivist, relational and performative explanations of identity8.4 The social construction of identity; 8.5 Relational identities; 8.6 The performativity of identity; 8.7 Concluding points; Summary; Some key readings; Part 3 Key concepts for cultural geographers; 9 Everyday geographies; 9.1 Introduction: waiting ... ; 9.2 Acknowledging everyday geographies; 9.3 Why everyday life matters; 9.4 The everyday 'escapes'; Summary; Some key readings; 10 Material things; 10.1 Stuff is everywhere; 10.2 'Following the thing' and Marxian materialism |
| Summary |
Cultural geography is a major, vibrant subdiscipline of human geography. Cultural geographers have done some of the most important, exciting and thought-provokingly zesty work in human geography over the last half-century. This book exists to provide an introduction to the remarkably diverse, controversial, and sometimes-infuriating work of cultural geographers. The book outlines how cultural geography in its various forms provides a rich body of research about cultural practices and politics in diverse contexts. Cultural geography offers a major resource for exploring the importance |
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10.3 Meaningful things and material culture studies |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Human geography -- Textbooks
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Human geography.
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Human geography
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kraftl, Peter
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| ISBN |
9781317753681 |
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1317753682 |
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