Handbook of Cultural Geography

Abstract

Culture is not a decorative addendum to the 'hard world' of production and things, the icing on the cake of the material world. (Hall, 1988

Autistic culture online: virtual communication and cultural expression on the spectrum

“…4 Similarities in circumstances generate potentially significant (if not always predictable) likenesses between and among various groupings. The sense of shared cultures that experiential affiliations create may differ across time and space, but they are also associated with less tangible 'axes of identity', as discussed by geographers of gender, 'race', sexuality and (dis)ability, among others (see Anderson, Domosh, Pile and Thrift 2003;Pile and Thrift 1995). Individuals might thus articulate an association or identification with 'minoritized' (Burman and Chantler 2004)-for example, Queer, Black or Deafcultures, referring to certain overlapping or parallel experiences, perhaps including experiential constellations around contestation of discrimination and geographies of exclusion (Sibley 1995).…”

Cultural Turn

“…'All' of this stuff, all of these 'cultural insights, turns, multiple circuits', to echo Ian Cook et al, must nonetheless be seen as stirred together to produce the cultural turn, even as we deny the singularity, stability, and containment implied by the definite article here, and certainly to furnish the discipline's 'embodi(ment) by cultural discourse', as these authors also put it. One only needs to consult the magisterial edited collection, Kay Anderson et al's 2003 Handbook of Cultural Geography, to gain a feel for how the entirety of human geography is now, or potentially could be, infused by the kaleidoscope of subject-matters and theoretical innovations introduced thus far in this article. The editors make clear that, for them, the Handbook is precisely not a report-back from a particular subdisciplinary field, that it is not really about cultural geography per se at all, but rather a statement for a much more broadly and deeply 'enculturated' human geography:…”

Establishing a Constitution for Europe during European Union enlargement? Visions of ‘Europe’ in the referenda campaigns in France and the Netherlands

“…At the crossroads of cultural geography and political geography (more specifically critical geopolitics) issues of identity, meaning and representation have increasingly been addressed (Dijkink 1996;Sharp 1996;Mitchell 2000;Anderson et al 2003;Ó Tuathail 2003;Gregory 2004;Dodds 2005;Dittmer 2005;Dalby 2008). Similarly, the importance of culture and the construction of identities are increasingly being addressed in International Relations and European Studies (Lapid and Kratochwil 1996;Ó Tuathail 1996;Smith 1999).…”