ISBN:
9781860647031
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (240 p.)
Series Statement:
International Library of Human Geography
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultural Geography : A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
As geography has been influenced by such themes as postcolonial studies, feminism and psychoanalysis, so students have had to engage with ideas and concepts from outside the traditional boundaries of their subject. This text provides students with an aid to understanding the complexities and subtleties of these new ideas. It presents short essays exploring the key concepts in cultural geography and are written by leading practitioners. The essays range from questions that have recently emerged to more established ideas that warrant critical examination. The book should be useful to students of
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Editors' Preface: On Cultural and Critical Geographies; Part I - Space, Knowledge and Power; Introduction; Post-structuralism; Respresentation; Politionality/Situated Knowledge; Mapping/Cartography; Travel/Tourism; Space/Place; Landscape; Environment; Geopolitics; Governance; Flexibility; Part II - Difference and Belonging; Introduction; The Body; Identity; Gender; Whiteness; (Disability); Sexuality; Moral Geographies; Citizenship; Heritage; Part III - Borders and Boundaries; Introduction; Private/Public; Globalisation/Globality; Postmodernism; Colonialism/Postcolonialism; Diaspora
Description / Table of Contents:
HybridityNature/Culture; Socio-technical; Cyborg Cultures; Contributors; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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