ABSTRACT
Cultural geography is presently one of the most vibrant and influential fields of human geography, particularly in the English-speaking world, and has increasing levels of recognition and influence beyond the discipline. Cultural geography has expanded rapidly in the last twenty years, in connection with cognate subjects such as historical, economic and political geography, enlarging, enriching and reshaping these fields of enquiry. The concept of culture in cultural geography bridges humanities and social science traditions in human geography, focusing on the importance of values, imagination, identity, power relations, creativity and critical interpretation, in the making and meaning of places, both in the mind and on the ground. Cultural geography also exerts an influence beyond geography, in exchanges with disciplines which have an established focus on place and space, landscape and environment, like archaeology and anthropology, and others like literature, music and cultural history in which a landscape focus is emergent. Cultural geography connects with practice-led subjects like urban design, planning and heritage management as well as landscape architecture, if some of these connections are potential rather than actual, yet to be conducted as disciplinary exchanges.
