Doing Cultural Geography

• Introduction - Pamela Shurmer-Smith PART ONE: THEORY INTO PRACTICEThe Trouble with Theory - Pamela Shurmer-SmithHumanistic and Behaviouralist Geography - Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer-SmithMarx and After - Pamela Shurmer-SmithPoststructuralist Cultural Geography - Pamela Shurmer-SmithFeminist Cultural Geography - Carol EkinsmythPostcolonial Geographies - Pamela Shurmer-SmithPART TWO: DOING ITSelecting Topics for Study - Katy Bennett, Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer-SmithMethods and Methodology - Pamela Shurmer-SmithExtensive Methods - Tim BrownUsing Secondary DataUsing Archives - Kevin HannamReading Texts - Pamela Shurmer-SmithParticipant Observation - Katy BennettInterviews and Focus Groups - Katy BennettField Observation - Louis Shurmer-Smith and Pamela Shurmer-SmithLooking at ParisFeminist Methodology - Carol EkinsmythPART THREE: MAKING SENSECoping with Archival and Textual Data - Kevin HannamHandling Case Studies - Katy Bennett and Pamela Shurmer-SmithRepresentation of Research - Katy Bennett and Pamela Shurmer-SmithCreating a TextConcluding Thoughts - Pamela Shurmer-Smith

`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