A Companion to Cultural Geography [Hardcover]

• 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

Notes on Contributors viii

List of Figures and Tables xiii

1 Introduction 1
James S. Duncan, Nuala C. Johnson, and Richard H. Schein

Part I Introducing Cultural Geographies 9

2 Cultural Traditions 11
Richard H. Schein

3 Cultural Turns 24
Heidi Scott

4 A Critique of the Cultural Turn 38
Clive Barnett

Part II Theoretical Intersections 49

5 Historical Materialism and Marxism 51
Don Mitchell

6 Feminisms 66
Joanne Sharp

7 Poststructuralism 79
Deborah P. Dixon and John Paul Jones III

8 Psychoanalytic Approaches 108
Paul Kingsbury

9 Performance and Performativity: A Geography of Unknown Lands 121
Nigel Thrift

Part III Nature/Culture 137&l£>