A Companion to Cultural Geography (Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography)

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 Cultural geography has always been a dynamic field, but since the early 1990s there have been particularly rapid changes in what is commonly referred to as the ''cultural turn''. This text provides an up-to-date comprehensive survey and assessment of the contributions of cultural geography Introducing cultural geographies Theoretical intersections Nature/culture Culture and identity Landscapes Colonial and postcolonial geographies In the past two decades cultural geography has undergone significant theoretical, substantive, and methodological shifts. Edited By James S. Duncan, Nuala C. Johnson, And Richard H. Schein. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. A series of essays on contemporary cultural geographies of nature, identity, landscape, and power