Cultural geography in practice /
Publisher description: 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 illustrat...
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London : New York :
Arnold ; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Oxford University Press,
2003
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: WRITING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: Knowledge is power: Using archival research to interpret state formation / Miles Ogborn
- The view from the streets: Geographies of homelessness in the British newspaper press / Jon May
- Secondary worlds: Reading novels as geographical research / James Kneale
- Researching bodies in virtual space / Hester Parr
- PART II: LIVING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: Home and identity: Life stories in text and person / Alison Blunt
- Gender and mobility: Critical ethnographies of migration in Indonesia / Rachel Silvey
- Learning about labour: Combining qualitative and quantitative methods / Susan Hanson and Geraldine Pratt
- Surveying sexualities: The possibilities and problems of questionnaires / Lynda T. Johnston
- PART III: VISUALISING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: Selling America: Advertising, national identity and economic empire in the late nineteenth century / Mona Domosh
- Photographs from the edge of empire / Joan M. Schwartz
- Mapping worlds: Cartography and the politics of representation / David Pinder
- Cinematic cities: Researching films as geographic texts / Maria Helena B.V. da Costa
- Researching the networks of natural history television / Gail Davies
- PART IV: PERFORMING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY: Art and urban change: Public art in urban regeneration / Tim Hall
- Building sites: Cultural geographies of architecture and place-making / Pyrs Gruffudd
- On display: The poetics, politics and interpretation of exhibitions / Mike Crang
- Deep listening: Researching music and the cartographies of sound / Les Back
- Introduction: Cultural geography in practice / Alison Blunt, Pyrs Gruffudd, Jon May, Miles Ogborn and David Pinder
- 1 Knowledge is power: Using archival research to interpret state formation / Miles Ogborn
- 2. The view from the streets: Geographies of homelessness in the British newspaper press / Jon May
- 3. Secondary worlds: Reading novels as geographical research / James Kneale
- 4. Researching bodies in virtual space / Hester Parr
- 5. Home and identity: Life stories in text and in person / Alison Blunt
- 6. Gender and mobility: Critical ethnographies of migration in Indonesia / Rachel Silvey
- 7. Learning about labour: Combining qualitative and quantitative methods / Susan Hanson and Geraldine Pratt
- 8. Surveying sexualities: The possibilities and problems of questionnaires / Lynda T. Johnston
- 9. Selling America: Advertising, national identity and economic empire in the late nineteenth century / Mona Domosh
- 10. Photographs from the edge of empire / Joan M. Schwartz
- 11. Mapping worlds: Cartography and the politics of representation / David Pinder
- 12. Cinematic cities: Researching films as geographical texts / Maria Helena B. V. da Costa
- 13. Researching the networks of natural history television / Gail Davies
- 14. Art and urban change: Public art in urban regeneration / Tim Hall
- 15. Building sites: Cultural geographies of architecture and place-making / Pyrs Gruffudd
- 16. On display: The poetics, politics and interpretation of exhibitions / Mike Crang
- 17. Deep listening: Researching music and the cartographies of sound / Les Back.