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The only text available that can be used as a productive
introduction and framework for teaching, learning about and
researching home. Written in a manner that is well received and
accessible to undergraduates, yet also contains sophisticated ideas
for researchers. New edition will retain and further develop its
core argument about a critical geography of home It will
significantly update the references, examples, research boxes and
illustrations in each chapter, critically engaging with the wide
cross-disciplinary range of research in this field since its
publication. The second edition will address existing and new
themes in greater depth, including home and temporality, the
'un-making' of home, home beyond the West, and home and religion.
It will also include a new chapter on 'Home and the city,' New
research boxes throughout the book will highlight recent and
ongoing doctoral and postdoctoral research on home. A new cover
image will better reflect the book's content and make it clear that
it is a second edition.
The only text available that can be used as a productive
introduction and framework for teaching, learning about and
researching home. Written in a manner that is well received and
accessible to undergraduates, yet also contains sophisticated ideas
for researchers. New edition will retain and further develop its
core argument about a critical geography of home It will
significantly update the references, examples, research boxes and
illustrations in each chapter, critically engaging with the wide
cross-disciplinary range of research in this field since its
publication. The second edition will address existing and new
themes in greater depth, including home and temporality, the
'un-making' of home, home beyond the West, and home and religion.
It will also include a new chapter on 'Home and the city,' New
research boxes throughout the book will highlight recent and
ongoing doctoral and postdoctoral research on home. A new cover
image will better reflect the book's content and make it clear that
it is a second edition.
Cultural Geography in Practice provides an innovative and
accessible approach to the sources, theories and methods of
cultural geography. Written by an international team of prominent
cultural geographers, all of whom are experienced researchers, this
book is a fully illustrated guide to methodological approaches in
cultural geography.
In order to demonstrate the practice of cultural geography each
chapter combines the following features:
*Practical instruction in using one of the main methods of
cultural geography (e.g. interviewing, interpreting texts and
visual images, participatory methods)
*An overview of a key area of concern in cultural geography (e.g.
the body, national identity, empire, marginality)
*A nuts and bolts description of the actual application of the
theories and methods within a piece of research
With the addition of boxed definitions of key concepts and
descriptions of research projects by students who devised and
undertook them, Cultural Geography in Practice is an essential
manual of research practice for both undergraduate and graduate
students in geography and related disciplines.
Dissident Geographies is a lively and accessible exploration of
radical perspectives in human geography, spanning anarchism,
marxism, feminism, sexual politics and postcolonialism. While some
of these radical views are well established bodies of thought in
geography, others are relatively new. Dissident Geographies seeks
to contextualise these radical ideas and traditions, situating them
in the places where they have developed, before looking at the
implications they have for geographical thought and practice. The
book has two main aims. First, Dissident Geographies introduces a
number of geographical traditions that challenge and destabilise
what counts as geographical knowledge. Second, the book shows how
the production of geographical knowledge is tied to politics and
struggles outside, as well as within, the academy. Dissident
Geographies traces the spatiality of political practice and the
politics of geographical thought, revealing the connections between
power, politics and geographical knowledge. The book has two main
aims. First, rather than reify 'the' geographical tradition,
Dissident Geographies introduces a number of geographical
traditions that challenge and destabiliz
Dissident Geographies is an accessible and lively exploration of
radical perspectives in human geography. The perspectives examined
in the book reveal and resist certain power relations that have
constituted geographical knowledge. The book has two main aims.
First, rather than reify 'the' geographical tradition, Dissident
Geographies introduces a number of geographical traditions that
challenge and destabilize what counts as geographical knowledge.
Second, the book shows how the production of geographical knowledge
is tied to politics and struggles outside as well as within the
academy. In each chapter, case studies illustrate the spatiality of
political practice and the politics of geographical thought. In
this way Dissident Geographies reveals the connections between
power, politics and geographical knowledge.
Drawing lessons from the complex and often contradictory position
of white women writing in the colonial period, This unique book
explores how feminism and poststructuralism can bring new types of
understanding to the production of geographical knowledge. Through
a series of colonial and postcolonial case studies, essays address
the ways in which white women have written and mapped different
geographies, in both the late nineteenth century and today,
illustrating the diverse objects (landscapes, spaces, views), the
variety of media (letters, travel writing, paintings, sculpture,
cartographic maps, political discourse), and the different
understandings and representations of people and place.
Studies of women travel writers have ranged from anecdotal and
celebratory accounts to more critical essays on imperialism or the
textualization of difference. This book does more. Drawing from the
life and travels of Mary Kingsley, a nineteenth century travel
writer and critic of the Crown Colony system, Alison Blunt cogently
examines the relationships among travel, gender, and imperialism.
Instead of studying either travel generally or women travel writers
in the colonial period specifically, Blunt examines both to show
how the spatiality and gendering of travel are inseparable.
Underlying her examination are debates about women as a focus of
historical research, Western women and imperialism, and the place
of women in a historiography of geography.
Postcolonialism and geography are intimately linked through the
spatiality of colonial discourse as well as the material effects of
colonialism and decolonization.Geographical ideas about space,
place, landscape, and location have helped to articulate different
experiences of colonialism both in the past and present and the
"here" and "there." At the same time, while spatial images such as
mobility, margins and exile abound in postcolonial writings, more
material geographies have often been overlooked.Postcolonial
Geographies presents the first sustained geographical analysis of
postcolonialism. Exploring and developing the connections between
postcolonialism and geography, the essays in this book--ranging
across Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, and North
America--investigate the geographies of postcolonialism and chart
the contours of a postcolonial geography. Contributors: Morag Bell,
Claire Dwyer, Haydie Gooder, Jane M. Jacobs, M. Satish Kumar, Alan
Lester, Mark McGuinness, Karen M. Morin, Richard Phillips, Marcus
Power, Jenny Robinson, James D. Sidaway, John Wylie
Postcolonialism and geography are imtimately linked through the
spatiality of colonial discourse as well as the material effects of
colonialism and decolonization. Geographical ideas about space,
place, landscape and location have helped to articulate different
experiences of colonialism both in the past and present and the
'here' and 'there'. At the same time, whilst spatial images such as
mobility, margins and exile abound in postcolonial writings, more
material geographies have often been overlooked. Postcolonial
Geographies presents the first sustained geographical analysis of
postcolonialism. Exploring and developing the connections between
postcolonialism and geography, the essays in this book - ranging
across Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and North America -
investigate the geographies of postcolonialism and chart the
contours of a postcolonial geography.
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