Handbook of Cultural Geography

Kay Anderson is a part-time Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society. She is a leading, internationally recognised scholar in the fields of Cultural Geography and race historiography. Her sole-author book, Race and the Crisis of Humanism (Routledge 2007) won the 2008 NSW Premier′s Literary Award for Critical Writing and her award-winningVancouver′s Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada 1875-1980(McGill-Queens UP 1991) is in its 5th edition. She is co-editor ofEnvironment: Critical Essays in Human Geography (Ashgate 2008) and the Handbook of Cultural Geography (Sage 2002). She is an editorial board member of various journals includingCultural Geographies, Geographical Research, and City, and section editor on ‘Cultural and Social Geography’ for theEncyclopedia of Human Geography (Elsevier 2009). My research is primarily concerned with the relationship between place and the politics of identity. For example, I have undertaken a series of investigations into the relationship between the city, everyday life and the spatial constitution of power. This work has found outlets in projects such as City A-Z and also a sole authored book, Real Cities: modernity, space and the phantasmagorias of city life. This book makes a case for taking seriously the more imaginary, fantasmatic and emotional aspects of urbanism. Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Georg Simmel and various psychogeographers, Real Cities explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of city life.A further strand of work has been to intervene in how Geography, as a Discipline, is conceived in terms of its practices, content and approaches. My main contribution has been to promote the legitimacy of a psychoanalytic approach to Geography, as first set out in The Body and the City. However, this project has also involved a more cultural take on Geography itself. This can be seen in both the Handbook of Cultural Geography and Patterned Ground.The work I am conducting over the next few years, however, focuses on the body. This project is tentatively titled Fantastic Bodies. It is expected that the final outcome will be a sole authored book. Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford University.

`I never expected to call a handbook compulsive reading, but this wonderful volume changed all my preconceptions of what cultural geographers can do. Absorbing and thought-provoking, this is collaborative intellectual work at its imaginative best; it situates, explains and questions cultural geography as a “style of thought” and in the process imparts such vitality and joy from thinking in that style that this reader wants to join in. This Handbook can inform and inspire anyone concerned in any way with cultural research today′ - Meaghan Morris, Chair Professor of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong`The Handbook of Cultural Geography lives up to its name. It is a book about where things are, how people live, what life means and why events happen. It should be carried at all times by anyone who is curious about the world. Crammed within its covers is a wealth of detail about the power to make history and shape geography.This is a catalogue of the disagreements and alliances that shape the world, and of the politics (and costs) of engaging with that world.The book is comprehensive yet has depth, accessible as well as experimental, and challenging without being too daunting. Each page contains something that seems highly familiar yet curiously strange. The message of course is that what we normally take for granted is so strange.The achievement is that after reading the Handbook, the world will never seem "normal" again′ - Susan J. Smith, Ogilvie Professor of Geography, The University of Edinburgh`A richly plural and impassioned representation of cultural geography that eschews everything in the way of boundary drawing and fixity. A revisioning of the field as "a set of engagements with the world," it contains a vibrant atlas of ever shifting possibilities.Throbbing with commitment, and undisciplined in the most positive sense of that term, it is exactly what a handbook ought to be′ - Professor Allan Pred, Department of Geography, University of California at Berkeley`A handbook with attitude and purpose, bristling with vitality, openness, and novelty. Dispelling with fixtures, canons, and retrofits, an imaginative cast in the hands of four of the most exciting contemporary cultural geographers opens up the cultural plural - culture as distribution of things, as a way of life, as meaning, as doing, as power - to a new spatial sensibility concerned with the fluid and mobile, the broadest ecology of spatial surfaces, the everyday lived, and the impetus of experimental forcings. A wonderful display of the confident maturity and originality that contemporary geography brings to cultural studies′ - Professor Ash Amin, Department of Geography, University of Durham

• A Rough Guide - Kay Anderson et al PART ONE: RETHINKING THE SOCIALIntroduction - Peter JacksonReclaiming `the Social′ in Social and Cultural Geography - Nicky GregsonEmbodying Social Geography - Pamela Moss and Isabel DyckCultural Geographies of Transnationality - Katharyne MitchellPART TWO: THE CULTURE OF ECONOMYIntroduction - Trevor J BarnesCultures of Labour - Linda McDowellWork, Employment, Identity and Economic TransformationsCultures of Money - Adam TickellA Cultural Economic Geography of Production - Meric S GertlerCultures of Consumption - Don SlaterPART THREE: CULTURENATURESIntroduction - Sarah WhatmoreGeographies of Nature in the Making - Noel CastreeReanimating Cultural Geography - Jennifer Wolch, Jody Emel and Chris Wilbert`Inhabiting′ - Steve HinchliffeLandscapes and NaturesPART FOUR: LANDSCAPEIntroduction - David MatlessDead Labor and the Political Economy of Landscape - Don MitchellCalifornia Living, California DyingLandscape and the European Sense of Sight - Denis CosgroveEyeing NatureLandscape and the Obliteration of Practice - Tim CresswellPART FIVE: PLACING SUBJECTIVITIESIntroduction - Robyn LonghurstThe Spatial Imperative of Subjectivity - Elspeth ProbynCultural Geographies of Racialization - Alastair Bonnett and Anoop NayakThe Territory of RaceQueer Cultural Geographies - Michael Brown and Larry KnoppWe′re Here! We′re Queer! We′re Over There, Too!Troubling the Place of Gender - Liz Bondi and Joyce DavidsonPART SIX: AFTER EMPIREIntroduction - Jane M JacobsCritical Imperial and Colonial Geographies - Daniel ClaytonPostcolonial Geographies of Place and Migration - Brenda S A YeohCultures and Spaces of Postcolonial Knowledges - Anthony D KingPART SEVEN: BEYOND THE WESTIntroduction - Jennifer RobinsonThe West and Other Feminisms - Cheryl McEwanBeyond Euro-Americanism - David SlaterDemocracy and Post-colonialismAlternative Modern - Michael WattsDevelopment as Cultural GeographyPART EIGHT: GEOPOLITICAL CULTURESIntroduction - Gerard Toal and John AgnewBoundaries in a Globalizing World - Anssi PaasiGender in a Political and Patriarchal World - Joanne P SharpThe Cultural Geography of Scale - Clare Newstead, Carolina K Reid and Matthew SparkeEnvironmental Geopolitics - Simon DalbyNature, Culture, UrbanityPART NINE: SPACES OF KNOWLEDGEIntroduction - John Paul Jones IIIThe Culture of Epistemology - Ulf StrohmayerKnowledge and Geography′s Technology - Francis HarveyPolitics, Ontologies, Representations in the Changing Ways we KnowThe Construction of Geographical Knowledge - Audrey KobayashiRacialization, SpatializationContested Cultural Landscapes - Richard Howitt and Sandra Suchet-Pearson