Saturday, April 5, 2008

Cultural Geography: Possible Classes and Books

Gender:

Putting Women In Place (Great overview of connection between gender and place; well-written and accessible and great intro for undergrads)

Race/Ethnicity:

Sidewalk

Environment:

Changes in the Land

"The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492" - Denevan

Suburbia:

Building Suburbia

Behind the Gates

Suburban Nation

Urbanism:

Sidewalk

Gay New York

Private vs. Public Space:

Brave New Neighborhoods

Behind the Gates

City of Quartz

Sidewalk

All That Is Solid Melts Into Air

Gay New York

Labor and Capitalism:

The Lie of the Land

Mobility/Transgression:

In Place/Out of Place

Putting Women In Place

Country of Exiles
(as example of conservative view of those who hate free-flowing movement and its implications of "placelessness;" is this a valid point? Does free flow and cosmopolitanism destroy "real place?")

Sidewalk

Memory:

Shadowed Ground

The Past is a Foreign Country
(on this list?)

Regionalism:

All Over the Map

The Middle West

Lure of the Local

Class:

Sidewalk


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