Introduction In June 1944, beneath the streets of Clapham, Clapham South Deep Level Shelter opened its doors to the people of London as they sought shelter from the ruins of London above ground. In 2018 the shelter is used as the site of the Transport Museums Hidden London ‘Subterranean Clapham’ tour. In the space of
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The Twists and Turns of Cultural Geography
A significant number of theoretical and methodological changes have shaped the existence of ‘cultural geography’. Whilst many essays tend to begin with a definition of the key topics and arguments that will follow, a paper on cultural geography has to be aware and be comfortable with the lack of fixed, univocal definition as the field
The ‘Sprawling Discipline’ of Cultural Geography
Cultural geography is a variegated and contested field, Price and Lewis alleging it to be ‘perhaps the most ambiguous term in… [Geography’s] lexicon’ (1993, p.1). A commentary on how the sprawling discipline of ‘cultural geography’ came to be so extensive could take up many more words than we have here, resultantly we will narrow our
Analysing the Movements Within Cultural Geography
Culture is ‘one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language’ (Williams, 1988: 87). Geographers have long sought to study and understand culture, as a series of ‘necessarily geographic’ (Mitchell, 2000:69) values held by groups of people, materialised through expressive praxis. As culture is a term so widely and differently used
The Major Schools of Cultural Geography
Cultural geography has undergone significant theoretical and methodological changes since its inception as a sub-field of human geography, with recent ‘spatial and cultural turns’ in the social sciences repositioning cultural geography as a field of importance to debates in Anglo-American human geography (Duncan, Johnson, & Schein, 2004). However, what constitutes ‘cultural geography’ is susceptible to
Four Stages of Cultural Geography
Provide a critical overview of the development of cultural geography paying particular attention to the methods it seeks to employ. Recognising social and historical foundations of our thought is imperative to understanding present thinking, cultural geography is no exception to this rule (Mitchell, 2000). Defined as ‘a subfield of human geography that focusses upon the
The Exciting and Diverse Field of Cultural Geography
‘Provide a critical overview of the development of cultural geography paying particular attention to the methods it seeks to employ.’ Michel de Montaigne, the French philosopher, famously argued “there is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.” It would be laughable, therefore, to suggest that the task of charting the development of
A Critical Overview of the Development of Cultural Geography
Provide a critical overview of the development of cultural geography paying particular attention to the methods it seeks to employ. In the 1900s, those in the Western world believed that the West was superior to all others and that European culture was far more advanced than the rest of the world (Crang, 1998). Geography in
Charles Booth’s Representation of Londoners: Class, Gender, and Morality
Charles Booth’s social survey of London spanned almost two decades and resulted in 17 volumes in the Life and Labour of the People in London, providing an incredibly rich source of knowledge about the city and its inhabitants (Charles Booth’s London). One of the most important products of the survey was the poverty maps of