Addresses both social and cultural geography in a single volume, authored and edited by leading authorities in the fields
The Companion to Social and Cultural Geography provides reliable and up-to-date coverage of both foundational topics and emerging themes within two vibrant and increasingly interconnected subdisciplines of geography. Building upon the Companion to Cultural Geography first published in 2013, editors Ishan Ashutosh and Jamie Winders offer an expertly curated collection of original essays with special emphasis on early-career scholars, geographers of color, and geographers from the Global South.
Organized thematically, the Companion opens with a series of "Global Dispatches" from cultural and social geographers working in different disciplines and locations, followed by explorations of key concepts in social and cultural geography such as identity, belonging, solidarity, inequalities, and intersectional geographies. Subsequent chapters examine a wide range of cultural and social geographies, including creativity, technologies, science, nature, memory, tourism, migration, labor, and religion. Throughout the Companion, authors share fresh insights into the racial reckonings of late, ongoing issues related to climate change, the consequences of COVID-19, and more.
Across its 46 chapters, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography:
- Examines how approaches to human-environment dynamics in social and cultural geography help shed light on current challenges
- Covers critical topics such as justice, protest, borders, public health, urban planning, indigeneity, genders, class, race, and sexualities
- Emphasizes the value of a geographic perspective to understanding social and cultural dynamics
- Discusses how geography has confronted its deep connections to colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy
- Addresses a range of emerging and established themes, including queer and transgender geographies, Black geographies, animal geographies, and cultural geographies of states
- Incorporates a diversity of writing styles, narratives, and analyses, such as interviews, conversations, short essays, autobiography, and autoethnography
Accessible, authoritative, and highly relevant to today's students, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography is an essential textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on social or cultural geography, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and ethnic studies.
An up-to-date compendium of cultural and social geography that reflects the complicated dynamics at the center of both subfields
Why do places look the way they do?
Where do boundaries between neighborhoods, communities, villages, or nation-states come from?
Why do cultural and social spatialities, geographies, and dynamics matter?
How can geographers help address the multiple crises that shape our everyday lives?
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography offers critical perspectives on foundational questions in the two increasingly interconnected subdisciplines of geography, providing authoritative and up-to-date coverage of long-standing topics and emerging themes alike.
Building on The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography first published in 2013, this revised and expanded volume brings together original essays by an international panel of contributors, with special emphasis on the work of early-career scholars, geographers of color, and geographers from the Global South.
Organized thematically, the Companion presents "Global Dispatches" from cultural geographers working in different locations and disciplines, explains core concepts in cultural and social geography, addresses a broad range of particular geographies, and offers geographic insights into critical issues such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual and digital worlds, and the racial reckonings of recent years.
With a diversity of writing styles, narratives, and analyses, the Companion uses a geographic lens to explore the cultural and social dynamics of labor, migration, justice, protest, nationalism, borders, public health, urban planning, indigeneity, class, race, sexualities, and much more.
Accessible and highly relevant to today's students, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography is an ideal textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on cultural or social geography, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and ethnic studies.
