Spatial and cultural analysis have recently found much common ground, focusing in particular on the nature of the city. Place/Culture/Representation brings together new and established voices involved in the reshaping of cultural geography.
The authors argue that as we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creating meaning. Writing becomes as much about the author as it is about purported geographical reality. The issue becomes not scientific truth as the end but the interpretation of cultural constructions as the means.
Discussing authorial power, discourses of the other, texts and textuality, landscape metaphor, the sites of power-knowledge relations and notions of community and the sense of place, the authors explore the ways in which a more fluid and sensitive geographer's art can help us make sense of ourselves and the landscapes and places we inhabit and think about.
List of illustrations vii List of contributors ix Introduction: Representing the Place of Culture 1(24) James Duncan David Ley Part I On representation in cultural geography Author and Authority: Writing the New Cultural Geography 25(14) Denis Cosgrove Mona Domosh Sites of Representation: Place, Time and the Discourse of the Other 39(18) James Duncan Spectacle and Text: Landscape Metaphors in Cultural Geography 57(21) Stephen Daniels Denis Cosgrove The lie That Blinds: Destabilizing the Text of Landscape 78(17) Jonathan Smith Part II On representing residential landscapes Revaluing The House 95(15) Deryck Holdsworth Public Housing In Single-Industry Towns: Changing Landscapes of Paternalism 110(18) Don Mitchell Co-Operative Housing as a Moral Landscape: Re-Examining The Postmodern City 128(21) David Ley Myths and Meanings of Gentrification 149(24) Caroline Mills Part III On representing institutional cultures This Heaven Gives me Migraines: The problems and promise of Landscapes of Leisure 173(14) Stacy Warren The Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development: The Culture Building Process within an Institution 187(18) Paul Kariya Multiculturalism: Representing a Canadian Institution 205(27) Audrey Kobayashi Representing Power: The Politics and Poetics of Urban Form in the Kandyan Kingdom 232(19) James Duncan Part IV On representing cultural geography Representing Space: Space, Scale and Culture in Social Science 251(63) John Agnew Interventions in the Historical Geography of Modernity: Social Theory, Spatiality and the Politics of Representation 314(1) Derek Gregory Reading, Community and a Sense of Place 314(15) Brian Stock Epilogue 329(6) David Ley James Duncan Index 335
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