ABSTRACT

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 geography students.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

Cultural Geography in Practice

part |62 pages

Writing cultural geography

chapter |14 pages

Knowledge is power

Using archival research to interpret state formation

chapter |16 pages

The view from the streets

Geographies of homelessness in the British newspaper press

chapter |16 pages

Secondary worlds

Reading novels as geographical research

part |70 pages

Living cultural geography

chapter |20 pages

Home and identity

Life stories in text and in person

chapter |15 pages

Gender and mobility

Critical ethnographies of migration in Indonesia

chapter |16 pages

Learning about labour

Combining qualitative and quantitative methods

chapter |17 pages

Surveying sexualities

The possibilities and problems of questionnaires

part |79 pages

Visualising cultural geography

chapter |13 pages

Selling America

Advertising, national identity and economic empire in the late nineteenth century

chapter |19 pages

Mapping worlds

Cartography and the politics of representation

chapter |11 pages

Cinematic cities

Researching films as geographical texts

part |67 pages

Performing cultural geography

chapter |17 pages

Art and urban change

Public art in urban regeneration

chapter |17 pages

Building sites

Cultural geographies of architecture and place-making

chapter |17 pages

On display

The poetics, politics and interpretation of exhibitions

chapter |14 pages

Deep listening

Researching music and the cartographies of sound