Great Readings in Cultural Geography
An annotated bibliography of seminal monographs, transformative essays, and landmark empirical studies in Cultural Geography. These works trace how leading spatial theorists have formulated paradigms, challenged orthodoxies, and analyzed the relationships among culture, power, landscape, and space.
- Foundations, Humanistic Geography & The Experience of Place
- The New Cultural Geography: Landscape, Ideology & Representation
- Power, Difference & Critical Spatialities
- Mobilities, Borders & Transnational Geographies
- Memory, Heritage & Commemorative Landscapes
- Affect, More-Than-Human & Non-Representational Geographies
Foundations, Humanistic Geography & The Experience of Place
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| The Morphology of Landscape (1925) | Carl O. Sauer |
| Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (1977) | Yi-Fu Tuan |
| Place and Placelessness (1976) | Edward Relph |
| Discovering the Vernacular Landscape (1984) | J.B. Jackson |
The New Cultural Geography: Landscape, Ideology & Representation
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape (1984) | Denis Cosgrove |
| The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments (1988) | Denis Cosgrove & Stephen Daniels (eds.) |
| The City as Text: The Politics of Landscape Interpretation in the Kandyan Kingdom (1990) | James S. Duncan |
| The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (1996) | Don Mitchell |
| Maps of Meaning: An Introduction to Cultural Geography (1989) | Peter Jackson |
| In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression (1996) | Tim Cresswell |
Power, Difference & Critical Spatialities
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| "A Global Sense of Place" (1991) | Doreen Massey |
| Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge (1993) | Gillian Rose |
| The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (1989) | David Harvey |
| Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle (2006) | Katherine McKittrick |
| Geographical Imaginations (1994) | Derek Gregory |
| Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007) | Ruth Wilson Gilmore |
Mobilities, Borders & Transnational Geographies
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World (2006) | Tim Cresswell |
| The Tourist Gaze (1990) | John Urry |
| Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (2013) | Sandro Mezzadra & Brett Neilson |
| The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993) | Paul Gilroy |
| Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes (2018) | Mimi Sheller |
Memory, Heritage & Commemorative Landscapes
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| The Past Is a Foreign Country (1985) | David Lowenthal |
| Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (1997) | Kenneth E. Foote |
| Uses of Heritage (2006) | Laurajane Smith |
| Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality (2005) | Tim Edensor |
| Written in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (1998) | Sanford Levinson |
Affect, More-Than-Human & Non-Representational Geographies
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Hybrid Geographies: Natures Cultures Spaces (2002) | Sarah Whatmore |
| Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect (2008) | Nigel Thrift |
| Sensuous Geographies: Body, Sense and Place (1994) | Paul Rodaway |
| Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (2016) | Donna J. Haraway |
| Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions (2014) | Ben Anderson |