Journal of Cultural Geography articles from February 2008

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from February 2008

Imagining heaven and earth at Mount of the Holy Cross, Colorado.(Report)
February 1, 2008... Rumors of a giant cross hidden deep in the Colorado Rocky Mountains finally proved true in 1873 with William Henry Jackson's photograph of Mount of the Holy Cross. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Thomas Moran further immortalized the cross, with...

The paradoxical nature of growth in the US bison industry.
February 1, 2008... In the bison industry, a paradox has emerged in which the ideal of bison restoration has become increasingly disconnected from the management practices that orient and coordinate the lives of bison on private ranches. Although the industry has...

Signs in motion: a dynamic agent in landscape and place.
February 1, 2008... Only recently have scholars begun to study how signs structure and enable use of the humanized landscape. This paper proposes to advance this new subject further in taking up the category of signs that move. An historical review discloses wide...

Football and the politics of place: Football Club Barcelona and Catalonia, 1975-2005.
February 1, 2008... Although Football Club Barcelona has been closely tied to Barcelona and Catalonia throughout its history, the narrative of that relationship has varied. Those narratives provide different understandings of how FC Barcelona is implicated in the...

The view from Vermont: tourism and the making of an American rural landscape.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... The view from Vermont: tourism and the making of an American rural landscape, by Blake Harrison, Burlington, University of Vermont Press, 2006, xiv+323 pp., US$29.95 (paperback), ISBN 1-58465-591-7 With its storied fall colors, fresh maple...

Heritage, memory and the politics of identity: new perspectives on the cultural landscape.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Heritage, memory and the politics of identity: new perspectives on the cultural landscape, edited by Niamh Moore and Yvonne Whelan, Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2007, xii+153 pp., US$99.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7546-4008-0 ...

Post-structuralist geography.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Post-structuralist geography, by Jonathan Murdoch, London, Sage Publications, 2006, ix+220 pp., US$43.95 (paperback), ISBN 0-7619-74245 Post-structuralist geography is an accomplished introduction to poststructuralist theory that assesses...

Hard as the rock: place and identity in the American mining town.(Book review)
February 1, 2008... Hard as the rock: place and identity in the American mining town, by David Robertson, Boulder, University of Colorado Press, 2006, xiv+216 pp., US$50.00 (hardback), ISBN 0-87081-850-3 It is always pleasurable to learn not only from what...