Introduction to Cultural Geography

Declan Cullen, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at George Washington University. His research focuses on digital platforms, labor, and urban politics, as well as geographies of colonial development. He is a co-author of Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City. He holds a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. Jamie Winders, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University. She is recognized for scholarly work on international migration, racial politics, labor dynamics, social reproduction, and artificial intelligence. She served as editor-in-chief of International Migration Review and is an associate editor of Cultural Geographies. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction xiPart I Framing Cultural Geography 11 What Is Geography? 3Thinking Like Geographers 3Thinking Geographically: Key Concepts 6Place 6Space 9Scale 11Landscape 13Thinking Critically? 16Notes 172 What Is Cultural Geography? 19Introduction 19What Is Culture? 19What Is Cultural Geography? 25Traditional Cultural Geography 26New Cultural Geography 28More-Than-Representational Cultural Geography 31Fighting Academics 32Conclusion, or Beginning? 33Notes 353 Identity 37Introduction 37Thinking About Identity 37How to Think About Identity 40Identity, Part 2: From Chinatown to Xuxa: Place, Race, and Migration 44Creating Vancouver’s Chinatown 44Race and Gender in Motion: Xuxa Comes to America 48Conclusion 50Notes 514 History and Memory 53Introduction 53Memory-Work 54Heritage 56(Post)colonializing Geography 58Spatial Politics of Memory in Cape Verde: Memory, Landscape, and Heritage in Cape Verde 62Conclusion 65Notes 675 Borders 68Introduction 68Understanding Borders 69Power of the State 72A Borderless World or a World of Borders: Cultural Differences, Cultural Transformations 76Conclusion 81Notes 83Part II Making Cultural Geographies 856 Cultural Geographies of Dwelling 87Introduction 87Cultural Geographies of Home 88Domestic Architecture 91Home Life 101Material Artifacts: Dwelling with Technology 102Conclusion 105Notes 1067 Moving 107Introduction 107Mobility 108Cultural Geographies of Migration 109Multiculturalism 116Migration, National Identity, and Cultural Differences 118The Middle East and Immigration 120Conclusion 121Notes 1228 Working 124Introduction 124What and Where Is Work? 124Placing Work 128Work That Doesn’t Count 130Social Liberalism and Keynesianism 132Care Work and Gender in Canada 134Ontario’s Home Health Care: Privatizing Care in the Home 135Canada’s Live-In Caregiver Program 136Conclusion 138Notes 1399 Playing 141Introduction 141Cultural Geographies of Tourism: Play, Work, Politics 143From Travels to Tourism 143Tensions of Travel: How Not to Be a Tourist 146Contemporary Tourism 148Is Tourism Production or Consumption? Play or Work? 151Working and Living in Tourism 152Conclusion 153Notes 154Part III Studying Cultural Geographies 15510 Making Sense of the World: (More Than?) Representation? 157Introduction 157The Work of Representation 158Maps, Representation, and Power 160More Than Words? More Than Representation? 163“The puzzling ‘matter’ of the body” 168Notes 17211 Things 174Introduction 174Material Cultures, Materialities 175Do Things Really Matter? 179Mobile Phones in Mobile Lives 182Mobile Lives in Tanzania 184Follow That Phone! 185So…? 187Notes 18812 Digital Geographies 189Introduction 189Digital Lives: Technological and Social Worlds 190Does Distance Still Matter? 191Digital and Real Communities 192Who Are We Online? 195Material Geographies of Digital Worlds 198Digital Geographies and Digital Divides 198Digital Infrastructures 201Conclusion 203Notes 20413 Social Movements: How to Be Heard in a Fractured World? 205Introduction 205Why, What, and How to Resist? 206Where to Resist? 208Mexico, 1968: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 210Ya basta! The Zapatistas 214#OccupyEverywhere 217Conclusion 219Notes 22014 Assemblages: Putting Cultural Geography Back Together Again? 221From Binaries … 223… to Cyborgs 225(Re)Assembling Cultural Geography? 227Critiquing Assemblages 229Conclusion 231Notes 23215 Futures 233Algorithmic Assemblages 234Vignette 1: Algorithmic Communities 235Vignette 2: Algorithmic Visions/Dreams? 238Vignette 3: Algorithms and Cultural Production 240So, what…? 243Notes 244Works Cited 246Index 000