1st Edition

Cultural Geographies The Basics

By Andrew Lapworth, Tom Roberts Copyright 2027
282 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Cultural Geographies: The Basics offers an accessible introduction to one of the most exciting and eclectic fields of academic study available to students today. It unpacks key conceptual and methodological innovations in cultural geography and outlines the new perspectives these offer for making sense of our world.     Showcasing the dynamic transformations that cultural geography brings... Read more

1. Introducing cultural geographies

2. (Non-)Representation

3. Nature

4. Technology

5. Bodies

6. Politics

7. Methods

8. Epilogue

Biography

Andrew Lapworth is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UNSW Canberra, Australia. His research interests lie in contemporary cultural geography, with specific expertise in continental philosophy and its implications for geographical thought and practice; human-technology relations; art and aesthetics; and cinema and popular visual culture. His research has been published in a range of leading geographical and social science journals, including Social & Cultural Geography, Cultural Geographies, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Area, Theory, Culture & Society, and Body & Society.

 

Tom Roberts is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography at UNSW Canberra, Australia. Tom’s research explores matter and materiality across a range of cultural contexts, from science and technology to artistic practice and experimentation. His work contributes to conceptual debates in cultural geography, including more-than-human geography, relational thinking, non-anthropocentric theories of subjectivity, and non-representational research methodologies. His work is published in Progress in Human Geography, Dialogues in Human Geography, Cultural Geographies, Area, Geohumanities, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.