Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction

✍ Scribed by Donald Mitchell

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 348
• Series: Critical Introductions to Geography
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a critical evaluation of the transformation of cultural geography which has occurred over the past two decades. Cultural Geography explains cultural change in different geographical settings, from the politics of everyday life to the production and consumption of landscapes, to the politics of sexuality, gender, race, and nationality.

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• Analyses recent transformations in cultural geographic theory, whilst salvaging the most valuable aspects of older traditions.
  
• Encourages debate over the ideology of culture, the production of value and the role of cultural struggle in reproducing social life.
  
• Illustrates cultural geographic theory using examples of contemporary "culture wars".
  
• Adopts an approach which is both accessible and meaningful to the advanced student, by relating difficult concepts to contemporary issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Part I The Politics of Culture
1 Culture Wars: Culture is Politics by Another Name
2 Cultural Studies and the New Cultural Geography
3 From Values to Value and Back Again: The Political Economy of Culture

Part II The Political Landscape
4 The Work of Landscape: Producing and Representing the Cultural Scene
5 Metaphors to Live By: Landscapes as Systems of Social Reproduction

Part III Cultural Politics
6 Cultural Politics: The Dialectics of Spectacle
7 Sex and Sexuality: The Cultural Politics and Political Geogaphy of Liberation
8 Feminism and Cultural Change: Geographies of Gender
9 "A Place for Everyone": Cultural Geographies of Race
10 Geographies of Belonging? Nations, Nationalism, and Identity in an Era of "Deterritorialization"

Part IV Conclusion
11 Cultural Rights, Cultural Justice, Cultural Geography

✦ Subjects

Regional;Geography;Earth Sciences;Science & Math;Human Geography;Social Sciences;Politics & Social Sciences;Cultural;Anthropology;Politics & Social Sciences