A Companion to Cultural Geography (Blackwell Companions to Geography) [Hardcover]

James Duncan (Editor), Nuala Johnson (Editor), Richard Schein (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0631230505 | ISBN-13: 978-0631230502 | Publication Date: March 15, 2004 | Edition: 1

A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 35 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study.

• Provides accessible overviews of key themes, debates and controversies from a variety of historical and theoretical vantage points
• Charts significant changes in cultural geography in the twentieth century as well as the principal approaches that currently animate work in the field
• A valuable resource not just for geographers but also those working in allied fields who wish to get a clear understanding of the contribution geography is making to cross-disciplinary debates

Editorial Reviews

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"Finally, a text that brings the major contributions of the ‘new cultural geography’ and its relationship to cultural studies into rich relief. A Companion to Cultural Geography comprises a series of outstanding essays on contemporary cultural geographies of nature, identity, landscape, and power. Each of the essays engages with broader debates in cultural studies and social theory, and with the role of theory, methodology and practice in contemporary human geography. This Companion will be invaluable to students, teachers, and researchers alike."
John Pickles, UNC Chapel Hill

"A Companion to Cultural Geography provides excellent company for a range of journeys that cultural geographers may be planning to embark upon... This is a book that academics cultural geographers will want to have on their bookshelves, and on the shelves of their libraries, as a resource for themselves and their senior undergraduate and postgraduate students, because these companions will speed many an academic journey."
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Book Description

A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 40 distinguished international scholars to provide a critical overview of this dynamic and influential field of study. The volume starts by charting the most significant changes in cultural geography in the twentieth century before going on to introduce the principal approaches animating work in the field today. These theoretical approaches are then grounded in a series of essays on the major thematic areas to which cultural geographers have contributed ---nature, identity, landscape, colonialism, and post-colonialism. The Companion will be a valuable resource not just for geographers but also for those working in allied fields who seek a clear understanding of the contribution that geography is making to cross-disciplinary debates.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 544 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (March 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0631230505
• ISBN-13: 978-0631230502
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,065,586 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not great, November 26, 2004

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Matthew Keenan (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Companion to Cultural Geography (Blackwell Companions to Geography) (Hardcover)

As a cultural geographer I have found this book to be very useful as a basis for arguments. Duncan, Johnson and Schein are very well respected members of the Geography community and bring to this collection of essays scholarly prestige. The topics covered in this book are wide ranging in the field of cultural geography and touch on the main sub-sub fields such as religious geography and political geography which seem to fall through the cracks in terms of compiled essay books. The material is very current and draws on the ideas of important members of each sub field. All in all this is a very useful book for general knowledge. I would recommend this text to teachers, and students of cultural geography. The main drawback of this text is the cost. For such amazing work that really needs to be made widely available to the public the cost is very prohibitive. All in all very well done.