A Companion to Cultural Geography

A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 35 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study. Provides accessible overviews of key themes, debates and controversies from a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points Charts significant changes in cultural geography in the twentieth century as well as the principal approaches that currently animate work in the field A valuable resource not just for geographers but also those working in allied fields who wish to get a clear understanding of the contribution geography is making to cross-disciplinary debates

Notes on Contributors viii List of Figures and Tables xiii 1 Introduction 1 James S. Duncan, Nuala C. Johnson, and Richard H. Schein Part I Introducing Cultural Geographies 9 2 Cultural Traditions 11 Richard H. Schein 3 Cultural Turns 24 Heidi Scott 4 A Critique of the Cultural Turn 38 Clive Barnett Part II Theoretical Intersections 49 5 Historical Materialism and Marxism 51 Don Mitchell 6 Feminisms 66 Joanne Sharp 7 Poststructuralism 79 Deborah P. Dixon and John Paul Jones III 8 Psychoanalytic Approaches 108 Paul Kingsbury 9 Performance and Performativity: A Geography of Unknown Lands 121 Nigel Thrift Part III Nature/Culture 137 10 Cultures of Science 139 David N. Livingstone 11 Nature and Culture: On the Career of a False Problem 151 Bruce Braun 12 Cultural Ecology 180 Paul Robbins 13 Environmental History 194 Gerry Kearns 14 Ethics and the Human Environment 209 Jonathan M. Smith Part IV Culture And Identity 221 15 Nationalism 223 John Agnew 16 Critical ‘Race’ Approaches to Cultural Geography 238 Audrey Kobayashi 17 Social Class 250 Nancy Duncan and Stephen Legg 18 Sexuality 265 Richard Phillips 19 The Body 279 Michael Landzelius 20 Consumption 298 James Kneale and Claire Dwyer 21 Public Memory 316 Nuala C. Johnson Part V Landscapes 329 22 Economic Landscapes 331 Susan Roberts 23 Political Landscapes 347 Karen E. Till 24 Religious Landscapes 365 Lily Kong 25 Landscapes of Home 382 James S. Duncan and David Lambert 26 Landscapes of Childhood and Youth 404 Elizabeth A. Gagen 27 Landscape in Film 420 Robert Shannan Peckham 28 Landscape and Art 430 Stephen Daniels Part VI Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies 447 29 Imperial Geographies 449 Daniel Clayton 30 Postcolonial Geographies 469 James R. Ryan 31 Diaspora 485 Carl Dahlman 32 Transnationalism 499 Cheryl McEwan Index 513