Doing Cultural Geography (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Shurmer-Smith, Pamela

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Doing Cultural Geography is an introduction to cultural geography that integrates theoretical discussion with applied examples. The emphasis throughout is on doing. Recognising that many undergraduates have difficulty with both theory and methods courses, the text demystifies the 'theory' informing cultural geography and encourages students to engage directly with theory in practice. It emphasises what can be done with humanist, Marxist, post-structuralist, feminist, and post-colonial theory, demonstrating that this is the best way to prompt students to engage with the otherwise daunting theoretical literature.

Twenty short chapters are grouped into five sections on Theory, Topic Selection, Methodology, Interpretation and Presentation. The main text is intercut with questions, suggestions for activities and short sample extracts from scholarly texts, chosen to exemplify the subject of the chapter and to stimulate further reading. Chapters conclude with glossaries and suggestions for further reading.

Doing Cultural Geography will facilitate project work from small, classroom-based activities to the planning stages of undergraduate research projects. It will be essential reading for students in modules in cultural geography and foundation courses in human geography and theory and methods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848605527
• Artikelnr.: 38429441

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Pamela Shurmer
Smith PART ONE: THEORY INTO PRACTICE The Trouble with Theory
Pamela Shurmer
Smith Humanistic and Behaviouralist Geography
Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer
Smith Marx and After
Pamela Shurmer
Smith Poststructuralist Cultural Geography
Pamela Shurmer
Smith Feminist Cultural Geography
Carol Ekinsmyth Postcolonial Geographies
Pamela Shurmer
Smith PART TWO: DOING IT Selecting Topics for Study
Katy Bennett, Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer
Smith Methods and Methodology
Pamela Shurmer
Smith Extensive Methods
Tim Brown Using Secondary Data Using Archives
Kevin Hannam Reading Texts
Pamela Shurmer
Smith Participant Observation
Katy Bennett Interviews and Focus Groups
Katy Bennett Field Observation
Louis Shurmer
Smith and Pamela Shurmer
Smith Looking at Paris Feminist Methodology
Carol Ekinsmyth PART THREE: MAKING SENSE Coping with Archival and Textual Data
Kevin Hannam Handling Case Studies
Katy Bennett and Pamela Shurmer
Smith Representation of Research
Katy Bennett and Pamela Shurmer
Smith Creating a Text Concluding Thoughts
Pamela Shurmer
Smith

Rezensionen

`This is a much-needed introduction to the practice of cultural geography which demystifies the research process and enriches our understanding and experience of the world. Written with conviction and good humour, Doing Cultural Geography is a hands-on guide that students will love, taking them through the various stages of selecting a topic, drawing on different theoretical frameworks to ask rigorous research questions, choosing appropriate methods, putting them into practice, interpreting the results and writing them up. Drawing on the authors' own research, Doing Cultural Geography is an invitation to take the insights of cultural geography beyond the classroom and to use of experience of everyday life to enrich the research process. It is an invitation that readers will find hard to resist' - Professor Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield