CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY IN PRACTICE

Alison Blunt is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.Pyrs Gruffudd is Senior Lecturer in Geography at University of Wales Swansea.Jon May is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.Miles Ogborn is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.David Pinder is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.

A book designed to help students find out "how it is done, and how they themselves can do it". This book contains an interesting, readable and valuable set of essays.The Times HigherWhat it promises, and what it delivers, is a useful and accessible guide to practising cultural geography: a guide that is suggestive rather than prescriptive. If you're interested in cultural geography, you should have a copy of this book......This is a book to be dipped into as specific research problems arise, and to be used more generally to think about the messiness of the research process.VOLUME 29 2004Transactions of The IBG

• Part 1: Writing Cultural GeographyChapter 1 Knowledge is Power: Using Archival REsearch to interpret State FormulationChapter 2: The View from the Streets: Geographies of Homelessness in the British Newspaper PressChapter 3: Secondary Worlds: Reading Novels as Geographical ResearchChapter 4: Researching Bodies in Virtual SpacePart 2: Living Cultural GeographyChapter 5: Home and Identity: Life Stories in Text and in PersonChapter 6: Gender and Mobility: Critical Ethnographies of Migration in IndonesiaChapter 7: Learning about Labour: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative MethodsChapter 8: Surveying Sexualities: The Possibilities and Problems of QuestionnairesPart 3: Visualising Cultural GeographyChapter 9: Selling America: Advertising, National Identity and Economic Empire in the late 19th CenturyChapter 10: Photographs from the Edge of EmpireChapter 11: Mapping Worlds: Cartography and the Politics of RepresentationChapter 12: Cinematic CitiesChapter 13: Researching the Networks of Natural HistoryPart 4: Performing Cultural GeographyChapter 14: Art and Urban ChangeChapter 15: Building Sites: Cultural Geographies of Architecture and Place-MakingChapter 16: On Display: The Poetics, Politics and Interpretation of ExhibitionsChapter 17: Deep Listening: Researching Music and the Cartographies of Sound