Cultural Geography / Edition 1

by Mike Crang

Overview

The so-called "cultural turn" in contemporary geography has brought new ways of thinking about geography and culture and taken cultural geography into exciting new terrain to produce new maps of space and place. Cultural Geography is the first book to introduce

culture from a geographical perspective. It tracks the ideas, practices and objects that together form cultures--and how these cultures form identities for individuals and populations. Crang examines a range of scales as he considers the role of states, empires and nations, firms and

corporations, shops and goods, books and films, in creating identities. Cultural Geography looks at the way different processes come together in particular places and how those places develop meanings for people, whether at a global scale or the intimate scale of everyday life.

This text features clear writing, boxed case studies, chapter summaries, further reading guides and a glossary of key terms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415140829
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/23/1998
Series:	Contemporary Human Geography Series
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Mike Crang is a Lecturer in Geography at Durham University.

Table of Contents

Locating culture; Part 1 People, landscapes and time; Part 2 The symbolic landscape; Part 3 Literary landscapes; Part 4 Self and other; Part 5 Multiply mediated environments; Part 6 Place or space?; Part 7 Geographies of commodities and consumption; Part 8 Cultures of production; Part 9 Nations, homelands and belonging in hybrid worlds; Part 10 Cultures of science;

Editorial Reviews

Introduces culture from a geographical perspective, focusing on how cultures work in practice and looking at cultures embedded in real- life situations as locatable, specific phenomena. Examines different cases and approaches in exploration of the experience of place, the relationships of local and global, and the dilemmas of knowledge. Considers the cultures of consumption and production, how places develop meaning for people, and the struggles over defining who belongs in a place. Includes a glossary. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Booknews

'Mike Crang's volume captures the excitement of this cultural moment in a text that is both scholarly and well written. It will prove a major resource to students and a very useful addition to any research collection.' - Ecumene

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