List members may be interested to hear of new texts in cultural geography
now available from Blackwell Publishers:
** Setting new standards in cultural geography **
Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction
Don Mitchell
Cultural Geography explains cultural change in different geographical
settings, from the politics of everyday life to the production and
consumption of landscapes, to the politics of sexuality, gender, race, and
nationality.
The author uses a range of contemporary "culture wars" - from a struggle
over public art in Denver to the politics of Jean-Marie le Pen in France -
to illustrate how cultural geographic analysis can be an important tool for
understanding, and progressively intervening in contemporary cultural
change. Mitchell unravels complex ideas, yet at the same time, challenges
the reader to think critically about cultural geography and about the
cultural geographies that structure our lives.
For further details and a full contents list visit:
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/book.asp?ref=1557868913
**An extraordinary sythesis that confronts the really important issues of
urban theory at century's end** - Susan Fainstein, Rutgers University
Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions
Ed Soja
Postmetropolis completes Ed Soja's trilogy aimed at expanding the scope and
critical insight of our spatial imaginations. Applying the theoretical
frameworks developed in Postmodern Geographies (1989) and Thirdspace (1996),
it deals with the dramatically restructured megacities that have emerged
worldwide over the last half of the 20th century. This is an innovative text
in urban and regional studies, and an insightful application of new
approaches to interpreting the spatiality of human life. It is also a vivid
and far-reaching interpretation of the turbulent recent history and
geography of Los Angeles.
For further details and a full contents list visit:
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/book.asp?ref=1577180003
For details of Thirdspace by Ed Soja visit:
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/book.asp?ref=1557866740
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