| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Author and authority : writing the new cultural geography / Denis Cosgrove, Mona Domosh -- Sites of representation : place, time and the discourse of the other / James Duncan -- Spectacle and text : landscape metaphors in cultural geography / Stephen Daniels, Denis Cosgrove -- Lie that blinds : destabilizing the text of landscape / Jonathan Smith -- Revaluing the house / Deryck Holdsworth -- Public housing in single-industry towns : changing landscapes of paternalism / Don Mitchell -- Co-operative housing as a moral landscape : re-examining "The Postmodern City" / David Ley -- Myths and meanings of gentrification / Caroline Mills -- "This heaven gives me migraines" : the problems and promise of landscapes of leisure / Stacy Warren |
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Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development : the culture-building process within an institution / Paul Kariya -- Multiculturalism : representing a Canadian institution / Audrey Kobayashi -- Representing power : the politics and poetics of urban form in the Kandyan Kingdom / James Duncan -- Representing space : space, scale and culture in social science / John Agnew -- Interventions in the historical geography of modernity : social theory, spatiality and the politics of representation / Derek Gregory -- Reading, community and a sense of place / Brian Stock |
| Summary |
"Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography. The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creating meaning. Writing becomes as much about the author as it is about purported geographical reality. The issue becomes not scientific truth as the end but the interpretation of cultural constructions as the means. Discussing authorial power, discourses of the other, texts and textuality, landscape metaphor, the sites of power-knowledge relations and notions of community and the sense of place, the authors explore the ways in which a more fluid and sensitive geographer's art can help us make sense of ourselves and the landscapes and places we inhabit and think about"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Human geography -- Philosophy
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Landscape assessment.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Human geography -- Philosophy
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Landscape assessment
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Anthropogeografie
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Landschaft
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Darstellung
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Ort
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Culturele geografie.
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Steden.
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Cultuurlandschappen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Duncan, James S., editor.
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Ley, David, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781135860288 |
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1135860289 |
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9780203714034 |
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0203714032 |
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9781135860356 |
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1135860351 |
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