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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography. Edition No. 1. Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography

  • Book

  • 608 Pages
  • June 2025
  • John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • ID: 6007637
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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1.            Global Dispatches

2.            Place and Landscape

3.            Theories

4.            Mappings

Belonging

5.            Race

6.            Genders

7.            Class

8.            Sexualities

9.            Nation/ethnicity

10.          Children/Youth

11.          Aging

12.          Inequality and Intersectionality

Cultural Geographies of…

13.          Performance

14.          The visual

15.          The tactile

16.          The aural

17.          Futures

18.          Memory

19.          Consumption

20.          Production

21.          Law

22.          Nature/Environmental histories

23.          Science

24.          Animals

25.          Food

26.          Migration

27.          Mobilities

28.          New media

29.          Emotion/affect

Spaces

30.          Rural

31.          Urban

32.          Suburban

33.          Domestic spaces

34.          Online lives/virtual spaces

Struggles/politics

35.          Climate

36.          Borders

37.          Imperialism/colonialism

38.          Postcolonialism

39.          Justice

40.          Protest

Authors

Ishan Ashutosh Jamie Winders Syracuse University, USA.