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Record Nr.

UNINA9910876653503321

Titolo

A companion to cultural geography [[electronic resource] /] / edited by James S. Duncan, Nuala C. Johnson, and Richard H. Schein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004

ISBN

1405128887

1-78268-816-1

1-280-28472-2

1-283-51436-2

9786610284726

9786613826817

0-470-70528-0

0-470-99725-7

1-4051-2888-7

0-470-99651-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (546 p.)

Collana

Blackwell companions to geography

Altri autori (Persone)

DuncanJames S

JohnsonNuala Christina <1962->

ScheinRichard H

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Human geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures and Tables; 1 Introduction; 2 Cultural Traditions; 3 Cultural Turns; 4 A Critique of the Cultural Turn; 5 Historical Materialism and Marxism; 6 Feminisms; 7 Poststructuralism; 8 Psychoanalytic Approaches; 9 Performance and Performativity: A Geography of Unknown Lands; 10 Cultures of Science; 11 Nature and Culture: On the Career of a False Problem; 12 Cultural Ecology; 13 Environmental History; 14 Ethics and the Human Environment; 15 Nationalism; 16 Critical 'Race' Approaches to Cultural Geography; 17 Social Class; 18 Sexuality; 19 The Body

20 Consumption21 Public Memory; 22 Economic Landscapes; 23 Political Landscapes; 24 Religious Landscapes; 25 Landscapes of Home;



26 Landscapes of Childhood and Youth; 27 Landscape in Film; 28 Landscape and Art; 29 Imperial Geographies; 30 Postcolonial Geographies; 31 Diaspora; 32 Transnationalism; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Cultural geography has always been a dynamic field, but since the early 1990s there have been particularly rapid changes in what is commonly referred to as the ''cultural turn''. This text provides an up-to-date comprehensive survey and assessment of the contributions of cultural geography.