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Doing Cultural Geography is an introduction to cultural geography that integrates theoretical discussion with applied examples. The emphasis throughout is on doing. Recognizing that many undergraduates have difficulty with both theory and methods courses, the text demystifies the ‘theory’ informing cultural geography and encourages students to engage directly with theory in practice. It emphasizes what can be done with humanist, Marxist, poststructuralist, feminist, and postcolonial theory, demonstrating that this is the best way to prompt students to engage with the otherwise daunting theoretical literature.
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D o i ng C ul t ur a l G e ogr a p hy The ‘Doing Human Geography’ series places the acquisition of skills at the core of learning, and each volume is written with the Geography Benchmark statement in mind. The emphasis on active learning underlines the value of a range of theoretical positions in economic, political, social and cultural geography, and allows students to get the most out of geography fieldwork. Titles in the series. Doing Economic Geography Edited by Simon Leonard Doing Political Geography Edited by Giles Mohan Doing Social Geography Edited by Pamela Shurmer-Smith Doing Fieldwork Geography Edited by Carol Ekinsmyth D o ing Cultural G e ography edited by PA MEL A S HURMER-SMITH SAGE Publications London • Thousand Oaks • New Delhi Editorial arrangement, Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 20 © Pamela Shurmer-Smith 2002 Chapter 3 © Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer-Smith 2002 Chapters 6 and 16 © Carol Ekinsmyth 2002 Chapter 8 © Katy Bennett, Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer-Smith 2002 Chapter 10 © Tim Brown 2002 Chapters 11 and 17 © Kevin Hannam 2002 Chapters 13 and 14 © Katy Bennett 2002 Chapter 15 © Louis Shurmer-Smith and Pamela Shurmer-Smith 2002 Chapters 18 and 19 © Katy Bennett and Pamela Shurmer-Smith 2002 First published 2002 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form, or by any means, only with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction, in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. SAGE Publications Ltd 6 Bonhill Street London EC2A 4PU SAGE Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road Thousand Oaks, California 91320 SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd 32, M-Block Market Greater Kailash – I New Delhi 110 048 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7619 6564 5 ISBN 0 7619 6563 3 (pbk) Library of Congress Control Number 2001 135325 Typeset by Photoprint, Torquay, Devon Printed in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press Ltd, Trowbridge, Wiltshire Contents 1 Introduction Pamela Shurmer-Smith 1 PART ONE THEORY INTO PRACTICE 2 3 4 5 6 7 The trouble with theory Pamela Shurmer-Smith 11 Humanistic and behavioural geography Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer-Smith 19 Marx and after Pamela Shurmer-Smith 29 Poststructuralist cultural geography Pamela Shurmer-Smith 41 Feminist cultural geography Carol Ekinsmyth 53 Postcolonial geographies Pamela Shurmer-Smith 67 PART TWO DOING IT 8 9 10 11 Selecting topics for study Katy Bennett, Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer-Smith 81 Methods and methodology Pamela Shurmer-Smith 95 Extensive methods: using secondary d