Cultural geography : environments, landscapes, identities, inequalities

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Cultural geography : environments, landscapes, identities, inequalities

William Norton

Oxford University Press, 2006

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-444) and index

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Description

Cultural geography is concerned with making sense of people and the places they occupy through analyses and understandings of cultural processes, cultural landscapes, and cultural identities. "Cultural Geography, Second Edition" contains six substantive thematic chapters on cultural geography that focus on a particular cultural geographic theme, explains the rationale for the theme, and provides examples of analyses conducted by cultural geographers.

Table of Contents

  • 1 INTRODUCING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
  • Doing Cultural Geography
  • Identifying Groups and Describing Landscapes
  • Dominant and Other Cultural Identities
  • Unequal Worlds
  • What this Book is About
  • Four Terminological Challenges
  • Culture
  • Cultural and Social
  • Nature
  • Landscape
  • Providing a Context
  • The Rise of the Social Sciences
  • The Rise of Human Geography
  • Human Geography Since 1900
  • The Regional Approach
  • Spatial Analysis
  • The Landscape School
  • Marxism and Humanism
  • Feminism and the Cultural Turn
  • What is Culture?
  • Culture and Society
  • Cultural Geography, Human Geography, and Geography
  • Culture in Cultural Geography
  • Culture and the Landscape School
  • Questioning the Meaning of Culture
  • New Cultural Geography and Cultural Studies
  • Evaluating the Culture Concept
  • Human Identity--Who Are We?
  • Place
  • Language
  • Religion
  • Ethnicity
  • Nationality
  • Community
  • Class
  • Gender
  • Themes in Cultural Geography
  • Six Themes
  • Environments, Ethics, Landscapes
  • Landscape Evolution
  • Regional Landscape
  • Power, Identity, Global Landscapes
  • Other Voices, Other Landscapes
  • Living in Place
  • Concluding Comments
  • Further Reading
  • 2 THE TRADITION OF CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
  • Separating Humans and Nature
  • Historical Perspective
  • Greek and Christian Thought
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • Englightenment and Nineteenth Century Thought
  • What It Means to be Human
  • Different Humans
  • Advances in Natural and Social Sciences
  • Sociobiology
  • Cultural Evolution
  • Understanding Ourselves
  • Environmental Determinism
  • Historical Perspective
  • Greek and Christian Thought
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • Enlightenment and Nineteenth Century Thought
  • Geography as the Study of Physical Causes
  • The Impact of Ratzel
  • Semple and Huntington
  • Appraisal
  • Human Use of Nature
  • Historical Perspective
  • Greek and Christian Thought
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • Enlightenment and Nineteenth Century Thought
  • Cultual Geographic Interpretations
  • Possibilism
  • Variations on a Theme
  • Controlling Nature and Controlling Others
  • The Landscape School
  • Origins
  • Key Ideas
  • Impact
  • Geography as the Study of Landscape
  • Revisions of the Approach
  • Toward Holistic Emphases
  • Rationale
  • Historical Perspective
  • Greek and Christian Thought
  • Geographical Thought
  • Ecological Emphases
  • Evolutionary Naturalism
  • Concluding Comments
  • Further Reading
  • 3 RETHINKING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
  • Spatial Analysis
  • Humanisms
  • Concepts and Procedures
  • Behavioural Geographies
  • Understanding Human Behaviour
  • Two Models of Humans
  • Space and Behaviour
  • Place and Behaviour
  • One or Two Geographies of Behaviour?
  • The Inference Problem
  • Marxisms
  • Marxist Social Theory
  • The Importance of Division of Laour
  • Versions of Marxism
  • Marxisms in Geography
  • Feminisms
  • Three Versions
  • Locating Feminism in Geography
  • Feminist Challenges to Geography
  • The Cultural Turn
  • A Context
  • Cultural Studies
  • Poststructuralism
  • Postmodernisms
  • Postcolonialism
  • The Mode of Representation
  • Conducting Research
  • Studying Society
  • Social Theory and Space
  • Social Geographies
  • Converging Cultural and Social Geographies
  • Concluding Comments
  • Further Reading
  • 4 ENVIRONMENTS, ETHICS, LANDSCAPES?
  • Ecology: A Unifying Science?
  • Ecologies in Social Science
  • Sociology
  • Anthropology
  • History
  • Psychology
  • Human Ecology and Geography
  • 'Geography as Human Ecology'
  • Human Ecology and the Landscape School
  • Other Contributions
  • Summary
  • Ecology and Systems Analysis
  • Adaptation
  • In Psychology
  • In Anthropology
  • In Cultural Geography
  • Rethinking Ecological Approaches
  • Hybridity
  • New Ecology
  • Environmentalism
  • Ecofeminism
  • Implications
  • The Chipko Movement
  • Political Ecology
  • The Approach in Context
  • Peasant-Herder Conflicts
  • Banana Exports and Local Food Production
  • Violent Environments
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Religion and Environment
  • Extending the Principle of Equality
  • Ecology, Economics, Ethics
  • Behaving Ethically
  • Living with Discordant Harmonies
  • Transforming Culture
  • The 'Golden Rule'
  • Global Landscape Change During the Past 12,000 Years
  • Foraging
  • Enviornmental Impacts
  • Agriculture
  • Why the Transition from Foraging to Agriculture?
  • Environmental Impacts
  • Cultural Impacts
  • Feudalism
  • European Overseas Expansion
  • Industry
  • Environmental Impacts
  • Cultural Impacts
  • A Postmodern World?
  • The State of the Earth
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Further Reading
  • 5 LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION
  • Cultural Diffusion
  • The Spread of Culture Traits
  • The Example of Covered Bridges
  • Linking Trait Studies to Culture
  • Migration and Diffusion
  • A Spatial Analytic Emphasis
  • The Work of Hagerstrand
  • Space Not Culture?
  • Diffusion, Culture, and Power
  • Agricultural Diffusion in Kenya
  • Cultural Contact and Transfer
  • Europe Overseas
  • Why Europe?
  • Why Not China?
  • Ecological Imperialism
  • Aboriginal-European Contacts: Chaging Understandings
  • Difference and Inferiority
  • Aboriginal-European Contact: Cultural Change
  • Resisting Change, Accepting Change
  • Imposed Change
  • Dependence
  • Shaping Landscapes
  • Approaches to Historical Geography
  • Frontier Experiences
  • Transferring Cultural Baggage
  • Evolutionary Regional Studies
  • Reading the Landscape
  • The Local and Regional Narrative History Tradition
  • The Landscape Magazine Tradition
  • Making the American Landscape
  • Making the Ontario Landscape
  • Making th Irish Landscape
  • Imagining Past Landscapes
  • Creating Images
  • Swan River Colony
  • Great Plains or Great American Desert?
  • 'A New and Naked Land'
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Further Reading
  • 6 REGIONAL LANDSCAPES
  • What are Cultural Regions?
  • Cultural Areas in Anthropology
  • Regions in Geography
  • Delimiting Regions
  • Classification
  • Four Difficulties
  • The Decline of Traditional Regional Geography?
  • Forming Cultural Regions
  • Cultural Hearths
  • Core, Domain, and Sphere
  • First Effective Settlement
  • Duplication, Deviation, and Fusion
  • Stages of Regional Evolution
  • Six Regions in the American West
  • Culturally Habituated Predisposition
  • Preadaptation
  • Cultural Islands
  • The Authority of Tradition
  • Following Rules?
  • Regions as Homelands
  • The Homeland Concept
  • Contrary Views
  • French Canada
  • French Louisiana
  • The Mormon Homeland
  • People and Region
  • Landscape
  • The Hispano Homeland
  • People and Region
  • Landscape
  • Shaping the Contempoary World
  • Civilizations as Global Regions
  • The Evolving World System
  • Civilizations as World Systems
  • 'The Greatest Topic in Historical Geography'
  • Global Regions
  • Culture Worlds
  • The Clash of Civilizations
  • The Myth of Continents
  • Concluding Comments
  • Further Reading
  • 7 INDENTITY, POWER, GLOBAL LANDSCAPES
  • One World Divided
  • The Mistaken Idea of Race
  • The Unity of the Human Species
  • The Illusion
  • Creating the Illusion
  • Classifying People
  • Demolishing the Illusion
  • Perpetuating the Illusion?
  • The Reality of Racism
  • Apartheid in South Africa, 1948-1994
  • Group Idenity in South Africa
  • Dividing People, Dividing Space
  • Genocide
  • Definition
  • Understanding the Incomprehensible?
  • A Century of Genocide
  • Armenians in Turkey
  • The Soviet Union
  • The Holocaust
  • Cambodia
  • Servia
  • Rwanda
  • Ethnicity and Nationality
  • Understanding Ethnicity
  • Six Components of Ethnicity
  • Language and Religion
  • Links to Ethnicity
  • Understanding Others
  • National Identities
  • A Cultural Geography of Our Unequal World
  • Creating Global Inequalities
  • European Miracle?
  • European Myth?
  • Globalization Processes
  • The Gap Between Rich and Poor
  • The Demise of the State?
  • Cultural Globalization
  • Scales of Identity
  • Towards a Global Culture?
  • 'Jihad versus McWorld'?
  • Overlapping Identities?
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Further Reading
  • 8 OTHER VOICES, OTHER LANDSCAPES
  • Socially Constructed Idenitites
  • Sameness and Difference
  • Excluding Others
  • Creating Others
  • Unsavory Others
  • Constructing Exclusionary Landscapes
  • Identity Politics
  • Classifying Identities
  • Embracing Diversity and Ambiguity
  • Gender
  • Gendered Identities
  • Gendered Landscapes
  • Homes
  • Suburbs
  • Monuments
  • Women as Other in Landscape
  • Landscapes of Fear
  • Sexuality
  • Sexual Identities
  • Terminollogy
  • Defining Sexual Others
  • Challenging Heterosexuality
  • Rethinking Gender and Sex
  • Sexual Landscapes
  • Claiming Spaces
  • Blurring Sexual and Spatial Boundaries
  • Other Peoples and Landscapes
  • Ethnicity in the City
  • Class
  • Age
  • Children
  • The Elderly
  • Disability
  • Exploring Different Identities
  • Identity, Resistance, Landscape
  • Expressing Resistance
  • Emergent and Resistance Identities
  • Contesting Landscapes
  • Contesting Religious Space
  • Individual and Group Rights
  • The Dangerous Notion of Cultural Identity?
  • Debating Multiculturalism
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Further Reading
  • 9 LIVING IN PLACE
  • Place
  • Home
  • People
  • Understanding Human Behaviour
  • Habitat and Prospect and Refuge Theories
  • The Geltung Hypothesis
  • Imagining Places
  • Images and Mental Maps
  • Vernacular Regions
  • Appalachian Cognitive Maps
  • Imagining Through Literature
  • Literature in Context
  • Music, Identity, Place
  • Music and Nationalism
  • Writing and Reading Places
  • Six Tenets of Cultural Landscape Studies
  • Landscape as Text
  • Naming Places
  • Renaming Places
  • Sacred Places
  • Mystico-Religious Space
  • Homelands as Sacred Space
  • Historical Sacred Space
  • Reading Rural and Urban Places
  • Rural Places
  • Buildings
  • Urban Places
  • National Places
  • Monuments and Memorials
  • Deathscapes
  • Consuming Places
  • Folk and Popular Culture
  • Heritage Tourism
  • Postmodern Consumption
  • Spectacles
  • Retailing
  • Food and Drink
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Further Reading
  • 10 CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY--CONTINUING AND UNFOLDING
  • Cultural Landscapes
  • Global Cultural Geographies
  • Difference and Others
  • Subdiscipline or Heterotopia?
  • Two Views of Cultural Geography
  • The Past is Prologue
  • An Integrated Human Geography
  • Looking Forward
  • Further Reading

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  • NCID
    BA75554904
  • ISBN
    • 0195419227
  • LCCN
    2005301150
  • Country Code
    cn
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Don Mills, Ont.
  • Pages/Volumes
    vii, 455 p.
  • Size
    25 cm
  • Classification
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