Introduction to Cultural Geography
A Critical Approach
Critical Introductions to Geography
1. Edition September 2026
320 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Introduction to Cultural Geography presents a comprehensive foundation to key themes and major theoretical developments relating to the spatial aspects of human culture. Drawing on material from the social sciences and humanities, cultural geography's relevance becomes apparent for a better understanding of today's world--and our own lives.
Readers will find theoretical and conceptual discussions, contextualization within cultural geography and related disciplines, and illustrative case studies to engage and facilitate a clearer understanding of each topic explored. A number of themes are explored from the role of social media in the production of cultural geographies and cultural politics to the intertwining of spaces of work and leisure, practices of production and social reproduction, in the world around us.
Initial chapters develop a conceptual framework for studying cultural geography, followed by coverage of how and where people make and claim place around the world. A final series of chapters addresses key topics in cultural geography, such as cultural formations and diffusion, from newer empirical perspectives.
Offering illuminating insights into culture, spaces, and places, Introduction to Cultural Geography reveals the important role of landscape as a shaper and repository of cultural meaning in the world around us.
Introduction
SECTION I: FRAMING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
Chapter 1 - What is Geography?
Chapter 2 - What is Cultural Geography?
Chapter 3 - Identity
Chapter 4 - History and Memory
Chapter 5 - Borders
SECTION II: MAKING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES
Chapter 6 - Dwelling
Chapter 7 - Moving
Chapter 8 - Working
Chapter 9 - Playing
SECTION III: STUDYING CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES
Chapter 10 - Making sense of the world
Chapter 11 - Things
Chapter 12 - Digital geographies
Chapter 13 - Social movements
Chapter 14 - Assemblages
Chapter 15 - Futures