A Companion to Cultural Geography brings together original contributions from 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

Table of Contents

• Notes on Contributors
• List of Figures and Tables
• 1 Introduction - James S. Duncan; Nuala C. Johnson; Richard H. Schein
• Part I Introducing Cultural Geographies
• 2 Cultural Traditions - Richard H. Schein
• 3 Cultural Turns - Heidi Scott
• 4 A Critique of the Cultural Turn - Clive Barnett
• Part II Theoretical Intersections
• 5 Historical Materialism and Marxism - Don Mitchell
• 6 Feminisms - Joanne Sharp
• 7 Poststructuralism - Deborah P. Dixon; John Paul Jones III
• 8 Psychoanalytic Approaches - Paul Kingsbury
• 9 Performance and Performativity: A Geography of Unknown Lands - Nigel Thrift
• Part III Nature/Culture
• 10 Cultures of Science - David N. Livingstone
• 11 Nature and Culture: On the Career of a False Problem - Bruce Braun
• 12 Cultural Ecology - Paul Robbins
• 13 Environmental History - Gerry Kearns
• 14 Ethics and the Human Environment - Jonathan M. Smith
• Part IV Culture And Identity
• 15 Nationalism - John Agnew
• 16 Critical ‘Race’ Approaches to Cultural Geography - Audrey Kobayashi
• 17 Social Class - Nancy Duncan; Stephen Legg
• 18 Sexuality - Richard Phillips
• 19 The Body - Michael Landzelius
• 20 Consumption - James Kneale; Claire Dwyer
• 21 Public Memory - Nuala C. Johnson
• Part V Landscapes
• 22 Economic Landscapes - Susan Roberts
• 23 Political Landscapes - Karen E. Till
• 24 Religious Landscapes - Lily Kong
• 25 Landscapes of Home - James S. Duncan; David Lambert
• 26 Landscapes of Childhood and Youth - Elizabeth A. Gagen
• 27 Landscape in Film - Robert Shannan Peckham
• 28 Landscape and Art - Stephen Daniels
• Part VI Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies
• 29 Imperial Geographies - Daniel Clayton
• 30 Postcolonial Geographies - James R. Ryan
• 31 Diaspora - Carl Dahlman
• 32 Transnationalism - Cheryl McEwan