Book description
Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of
historical and theoretical perspectives, this authoritative reference
volume offers the most up-to-date and substantive analysis of cultural
geography currently available.
- A significantly revised new edition covering a number of new
topics such as biotechnology, rural, food, media and tech, borders
and tourism, whilst also reflecting developments in established
subjects including animal geographies
- Edited and written by the leading authorities in this
fast-developing discipline, and features a host of new contributors
to the second edition
- Traces the historical evolution of cultural geography through to
the very latest research
- Provides an international perspective, reflecting the advancing
academic traditions of non-Western institutions, especially in Asia
- Features a thematic structure, with sections exploring topics such
as identities, nature and culture, and flows and mobility
Nuala C. Johnson is a Reader in Geography at Queen's University
Belfast, UK. An historical geographer with research interests that
include the relationships between identity politics, memory and
representation, as well as the role of aesthetics in the making of
scientific spaces. Dr Johnson is the author of Nature Displaced,
Nature Displayed: Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens (2011);
Ireland, the Great War and the Geography of Remembrance
(2003); and she is editor of Culture and Society (2008).
Richard H. Schein is Professor of Geography at the University
of Kentucky, where he also is a member of the Committee on Social
Theory and the American Studies Faculty. He is a cultural and
historical geographer interested in the place of land and landscape in
the processes of everyday life. His work often is focused on the
racialized US south, and especially in urban settings. He is the
editor of Landscape and Race in United States (2006).
Jamie Winders is Associate Professor in Geography at the
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse
University, USA. An urban social geographer with a focus on social
theory and qualitative methods, she has published widely in geography
and related fields on international migration, racial politics, urban
governance, postcolonial theory, pedagogy, and historical geography.
