Place/Culture/Representation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138140287 ISBN 13: 9781138140288

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"James Duncan and David Ley have assembled an admirable collection of essays to explore a triad of interrealted cultural processes...importantly, the collection reveals how uneven power relationships are forged and sustained through strtegic (mis)representations of culture and places."
-"Geographical Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138140287
• ISBN 13: 9781138140288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Duncan James S., Ley David