Cultural Geography :A Critical Dictionary of Key Ideas

Publication subTitle :A Critical Dictionary of Key Ideas

Author: Sibley> David  

Publisher: I.B.Tauris‎

Publication year: 2005

E-ISBN: 9780857711816

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781860647031

Subject: C91 Sociology

Keyword: 社会学

Language: ENG

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Description

As geography has become influenced by such themes as postcolonial studies,feminism and psychoanalysis, so students have had to engage with ideas andconcepts from outside the traditional boundaries of their subject. This exciting new book provides students with an invaluable aid to understanding the complexities and subtleties of these new ideas: Critical Geographies presents short essays exploring the key concepts in cultural geography._x000D_Written by leading practitioners, the essays range from questions that have_x000D_recently emerged to more established ideas that warrant critical_x000D_examination. Topics include (dis)ability, embodiment, governance, heritage,identity, postmodernity, psychogeographies, queer theory, space. The book will be invaluable to students of cultural geography and to students of related disciplines.

Chapter

Introduction

Post-structuralism

Respresentation

Politionality/Situated Knowledge

Mapping/Cartography

Travel/Tourism

Space/Place

Landscape

Environment

Geopolitics

Governance

Flexibility

Part II - Difference and Belonging

Identity

Introduction

The Body

Gender

Whiteness

(Disability)

Sexuality

Moral Geographies

Citizenship

Heritage

Part III - Borders and Boundaries

Introduction

Private/Public

Globalisation/Globality

Postmodernism

Colonialism/Postcolonialism

Diaspora

Hybridity

Nature/Culture

Socio-technical

Cyborg Cultures

Contributors

Index

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