Doing Cultural Geography / Edition 1

by Pamela Shurmer-Smith

Overview

A new series from SAGE PublicationsWritten 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761965657
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/28/2002
Series:	Doing Geography series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

‘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, Doing Cultural Geography 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, Doing Cultural Geography 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' - Professor Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield

From the Publisher

Defining cultural geography as the field of study which concentrates on the ways in which space, place, and the environment participate in an unfolding dialogue of meaning, Shurmer-Smith (geography, Portsmouth U., UK) presents 20 chapters on theory, methodology, and analysis in this relatively new field. The authors share a consensus on the validity of the above definition, but differ in the relative importance they ascribe to various methodologies and theories. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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