A Companion to Cultural Geography

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