ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction

Representing the place of culture

part I|70 pages

Part I ON REPRESENTATION IN CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY

chapter 2|14 pages

Author And Authority

Writing the new cultural geography

chapter 3|18 pages

Sites of Representation

Place, time and the discourse of the other

chapter 4|21 pages

Spectacle And Text

Landscape metaphors in cultural geography

chapter 5|15 pages

The Lie That Blinds

Destabilizing the text of landscape

part II|78 pages

Part II On Representing Residential Landscapes

chapter 6|15 pages

Revaluing The House

chapter 7|18 pages

Public Housing In Single-Industry Towns

Changing landscapes of paternalism

chapter 8|21 pages

Co-Operative Housing As A Moral Landscape

Re-examining ‘the postmodern city'

part III|78 pages

Part III On Representing Institutional Cultures

chapter 10|14 pages

‘This Heaven Gives Me Migraines'

The problems and promise of landscapes of leisure 1

chapter 11|18 pages

The Department of Indian Affairs And Northern Development

The culture-building process within an institution

chapter 12|27 pages

Multiculturalism

Representing a canadian institution

chapter 13|17 pages

Representing Power

The politics and poetics of urban form in the kandyan kingdom

part IV|86 pages

Part IV On Representing Cultural Geography

chapter 14|21 pages

Representing Space

Space, scale and culture in social science

chapter 15|42 pages

Interventions In The Historical Geography Of Modernity

Social theory, spatiality and the politics of representation

chapter 17|6 pages

Epilogue