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This book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci, and
methodological techniques of cultural geography make sense of the
'culture wars' that define our time. It is on the battleground of
culture that our opportunities, rights, and futures are determined
and Understanding Cultural Geography showcases how this discipline
can be used to understand these battles and how we can engage in
them. Through doing so, the book not only introduces the reader to
the rich and complex history of cultural geography, but also the
key terms on which the discipline is built. From these insights,
the text approaches place as an 'ongoing composition of traces',
highlighting the dynamic and ever-changing nature of the world
around us, and what our role can be in transforming it for the
better. The third edition has been fully revised and updated to
incorporate recent literature and reflect the changing cultural
context of its time. Retaining its exciting and innovative
structure, the third edition will expand its focus into new areas,
including updated chapters on ethnicity and race, and new chapters
on gender and the body. This new edition captures not only recent
changes in the cultural world, but also the discipline itself,
offering the most up-to-date text to understand and engage with the
cultural battlegrounds which constitute our lives. Understanding
Cultural Geography is the ideal text for students being introduced
to the discipline through either undergraduate or postgraduate
degree courses. The third edition is an important update to a
highly successful text that incorporates a vast foundation of
knowledge; it is an invaluable book for lecturers and students.
Invisible as the seas and oceans may be for so many of us, life as
we know it is almost always connected to, and constituted by,
activities and occurrences that take place in, on and under our
oceans. The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space provides a first port
of call for scholars engaging in the 'oceanic turn' in the social
sciences, offering a comprehensive summary of existing trends in
making sense of our water worlds, alongside new, agenda-setting
insights into the relationships between society and the 'seas
around us'. Accordingly, this ambitious text not only attends to a
growing interest in our oceans, past and present; it is also
situated in a broader spatial turn across the social sciences that
seeks to account for how space and place are imbricated in
socio-cultural and political life. Through six clearly structured
and wide-ranging sections, The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space
examines and interrogates how the oceans are environmental,
historical, social, cultural, political, legal and economic spaces,
and also zones where national and international security comes into
question. With a foreword and introduction authored by some of the
leading scholars researching and writing about ocean spaces,
alongside 31 further, carefully crafted chapters from established
as well as early career academics, this book provides both an
accessible guide to the subject and a cutting-edge collection of
critical ideas and questions shaping the social sciences today.
This handbook brings together the key debates defining the 'field'
in one volume, appealing to a wide, cross-disciplinary social
science and humanities audience. Moreover, drawing on a range of
international examples, from a global collective of authors, this
book promises to be the benchmark publication for those interested
in ocean spaces, past and present. Indeed, as the seas and oceans
continue to capture world-wide attention, and the social sciences
continue their seaward 'turn', The Routledge Handbook of Ocean
Space will provide an invaluable resource that reveals how our
world is a water world.
The act of surfing involves highly-skilled humans gliding, sliding,
or otherwise riding waves of energy as they pass through water. As
this book argues, however, this act of surfing does not exist in
isolation. It is defined by the cultures and geographies that
synergize with it - by the places, ideas, images, and other
representations which at once reflect, create, and commodify this
spatial practice. This book innovatively explores the spaces of
surf and surf-riding, informed specifically by the perspective of
human geography. Based on a range of critical turns within the
social sciences, the book explores the locations, relational
sensibilities, and transformative nature of surfing spaces, and
examines how the spatial practice has been scripted by dominant
surfing cultures. The book details how prescriptive (b)orders of
access, entitlement, and marginalization have been created, and
how, with the advent of new craft, media, and ideals, they are
being actively challenged to redefine surfing spaces in the
twenty-first century.
Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists
of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this
vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography'
directly translates as 'earth writing' and in line with this
definition the discipline has preoccupied itself with the study of
terrestrial spaces of society and nature. This book challenges
human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial, investigating
the terra incognita of the seas and oceans. Linking to new
theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline (such as
affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human),
this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies
of ocean space. The book casts adrift stable, bounded and fixed
conceptions of space and advances geographical understanding based
on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional. This
ontology supports the notion that the oceans are not simply fluid
in a literal way, but also in a conceptual sense, suggesting that
the seas have their own fluid natures - their own capacities and
agencies - which are co-fabricated with social and cultural life.
This book features twelve chapters, authored by key academics
contributing to this growing field of research. The book is divided
into three sections, including an Introduction by the editors and a
foreword by Prof. Philip E. Steinberg, the leading scholar in the
field of maritime geographies. The first section of the book
considers the ways in which different watery spaces from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea have been conceptualized,
theorized and 'known' through metaphors, voyages of discovery and
scientific endeavour. The second section examines how oceans are
experienced; through various activities including driving on water,
kayaking in water and diving under water. The final section
explores the relations between human life and the nature of the sea
as a material, mobile and more-than-human spa
This book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci, and
methodological techniques of cultural geography make sense of the
'culture wars' that define our time. It is on the battleground of
culture that our opportunities, rights, and futures are determined
and Understanding Cultural Geography showcases how this discipline
can be used to understand these battles and how we can engage in
them. Through doing so, the book not only introduces the reader to
the rich and complex history of cultural geography, but also the
key terms on which the discipline is built. From these insights,
the text approaches place as an 'ongoing composition of traces',
highlighting the dynamic and ever-changing nature of the world
around us, and what our role can be in transforming it for the
better. The third edition has been fully revised and updated to
incorporate recent literature and reflect the changing cultural
context of its time. Retaining its exciting and innovative
structure, the third edition will expand its focus into new areas,
including updated chapters on ethnicity and race, and new chapters
on gender and the body. This new edition captures not only recent
changes in the cultural world, but also the discipline itself,
offering the most up-to-date text to understand and engage with the
cultural battlegrounds which constitute our lives. Understanding
Cultural Geography is the ideal text for students being introduced
to the discipline through either undergraduate or postgraduate
degree courses. The third edition is an important update to a
highly successful text that incorporates a vast foundation of
knowledge; it is an invaluable book for lecturers and students.
Our world is a water world. Seventy percent of our planet consists
of ocean. However, geography has traditionally overlooked this
vital component of the earth's composition. The word 'geography'
directly translates as 'earth writing' and in line with this
definition the discipline has preoccupied itself with the study of
terrestrial spaces of society and nature. This book challenges
human geography's preoccupation with the terrestrial, investigating
the terra incognita of the seas and oceans. Linking to new
theoretical debates shaping the geographic discipline (such as
affect, assemblage, emotion, hybridity and the more-than-human),
this volume unlocks new knowledge concerning the human geographies
of ocean space. The book casts adrift stable, bounded and fixed
conceptions of space and advances geographical understanding based
on the world as 'becoming', changing, mobile and processional. This
ontology supports the notion that the oceans are not simply fluid
in a literal way, but also in a conceptual sense, suggesting that
the seas have their own fluid natures - their own capacities and
agencies - which are co-fabricated with social and cultural life.
This book features twelve chapters, authored by key academics
contributing to this growing field of research. The book is divided
into three sections, including an Introduction by the editors and a
foreword by Prof. Philip E. Steinberg, the leading scholar in the
field of maritime geographies. The first section of the book
considers the ways in which different watery spaces from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea have been conceptualized,
theorized and 'known' through metaphors, voyages of discovery and
scientific endeavour. The second section examines how oceans are
experienced; through various activities including driving on water,
kayaking in water and diving under water. The final section
explores the relations between human life and the nature of the sea
as a material, mobile and more-than-human spa
Seeds of Fire brings together the work of over fifty poets from the
other USA - including Adrienne Rich, Fred Voss, Grace Paley, Amiri
Baraka, Jayne Cortez and Martin Espada. Lyrical, satirical, raging
and prophetic, they bear witness against the crippling nationalism
promoted by the ruling political parties and corporate media in the
United States."
In forty-five years as one of Chicago's liveliest journalists
for "Time, Life, " and the "Chicago Tribune," Jon Anderson has
established a reputation for picking up on what someone once called
"the beauty of the specific fact." Part "Talk of the Town," part
"On the Road with Charles Kuralt," Anderson's twice-a-week "City
Watch" columns in the "Chicago Tribune" seek out interesting and
unexpected people and places from the everyday life of what the
author calls the "most typical American big city." In the process
he discovers the joys and triumphs of ordinary people.
Anderson writes with wit and insight about those who find
themselves inspired or obsessed with alternative ways of viewing
life or getting through the day. Like the man who started with one
light pole, then painted all the poles in his southside
neighborhood. Or the founder of Cats-Are-Purrsons-Too, a nun who
lives with sixty-seven cats. Or the philosopher who, with no
financial success, still publishes a newsletter called "The Meaning
of Life." After years of hunting down moments of everyday life that
have drama and meaning, Anderson offers a book that has curious
power, because all of its stories are true.
Drawn from the best of Anderson's columns, "City Watch"
introduces readers to an eclectic mix of social clubs, subcultures,
and minor celebrities. From Foraging Friends, a group of penniless
ecologists who forage for wild foods in a county forest preserve,
to the annual Dumpster Diver fashion show, from the Oakton
Elementary School chess team to a group that calls itself Some
Chicago Anarchists, readers will discover the characters and events
that define Chicago's local color.
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