`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, <b>Doing Cultural Geography</b> 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, <b>Doing Cultural Geography </b>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′ - <b><i>Professor Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield</i></b>

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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Written with reference to the Geography Benchmark Statement, Doing Cultural Geography emphasises active learning, and so will invite students to ask questions, look for the appropriate methods to answer those questions, and decide on the most effective way of representing the findings.

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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
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ISBN
9780761965657
Publisert
2001-12-12
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Inc
Vekt
430 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
170 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
248