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