CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY IN PRACTICE

A book designed to help students find out "how it is done, and how they themselves can do it". This book contains an interesting, readable and valuable set of essays. The Times Higher What it promises, and what it delivers, is a useful and accessible guide to practising cultural geography: a guide that is suggestive rather than prescriptive. If you're interested in cultural geography, you should have a copy of this book... ...This is a book to be dipped into as specific research problems arise, and to be used more generally to think about the messiness of the research process. VOLUME 29 2004 Transactions of The IBG

Alison Blunt is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. Pyrs Gruffudd is Senior Lecturer in Geography at University of Wales Swansea. Jon May is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. Miles Ogborn is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. David Pinder is Lecturer in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London.

Part 1: Writing Cultural Geography Chapter 1 Knowledge is Power: Using Archival REsearch to interpret State Formulation Chapter 2: The View from the Streets: Geographies of Homelessness in the British Newspaper Press Chapter 3: Secondary Worlds: Reading Novels as Geographical Research Chapter 4: Researching Bodies in Virtual Space Part 2: Living Cultural Geography Chapter 5: Home and Identity: Life Stories in Text and in Person Chapter 6: Gender and Mobility: Critical Ethnographies of Migration in Indonesia Chapter 7: Learning about Labour: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods Chapter 8: Surveying Sexualities: The Possibilities and Problems of Questionnaires Part 3: Visualising Cultural Geography Chapter 9: Selling America: Advertising, National Identity and Economic Empire in the late 19th Century Chapter 10: Photographs from the Edge of Empire Chapter 11: Mapping Worlds: Cartography and the Politics of Representation Chapter 12: Cinematic Cities Chapter 13: Researching the Networks of Natural History Part 4: Performing Cultural Geography Chapter 14: Art and Urban Change Chapter 15: Building Sites: Cultural Geographies of Architecture and Place-Making Chapter 16: On Display: The Poetics, Politics and Interpretation of Exhibitions Chapter 17: Deep Listening: Researching Music and the Cartographies of Sound