Journal of Cultural Geography articles from June 2008

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from June 2008

The gendering of Asian Indian transnationalism on the Internet.
June 1, 2008... Online activities offer immigrants an important way to maintain and recreate transnational linkages across space and time. Even though one enters cyberspace as a disembodied participant, fundamental aspects of bodily difference--gender, age,...

Modifying sense of place in a federal company town: Sunflower Village, Kansas, 1942 to 1959.
June 1, 2008... The federal government built Sunflower Village, Kansas, to house employees of the Sunflower Ordnance Plant and their families during World War II. The community existed in this fashion until 1959 when a private real-estate developer bought the...

Recalcitrant space: modeling variation in humanistic geography.
June 1, 2008... In the past decade humanistic geography has been roundly criticized by influential geographers for offering essentialist conceptions of place. In this paper it is argued that essentialism is not intrinsic to these conceptions, and a model of...

Technology and geographical imaginations: representing aviation in 1930s Italy.
June 1, 2008... This paper examines the geographical imaginations associated with aviation in fascist Italy, focusing on the representation of flight on the one hand, and on the other hand the role of propaganda flights organized by the regime in the 1930s....

Chicago: a geography of the city and its region.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Chicago: a geography of the city and its region, by John C. Hudson, Santa Fe, Center for American Places, 2006, xvi +260 pp., $45.00 (paperback), ISBN 0-226-35806-2 If you were to ask a budding geography major about the geography of...

Antonio's gun and Delfino's dream: true tales of Mexican migration.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Antonio's gun and Delfino's dream: true tales of Mexican migration, by Sam Quinones, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2007, 318 pp., $24.9 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8263-4254-6 Each year approximately 600,000 Mexicans leave their...

Regulating the night: race, culture and exclusion in the making of the night-time economy.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Regulating the night: race, culture and exclusion in the making of the night-time economy, by Deborah Talbot, Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing, 2007, i + 156 pp., $99.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-7546-4752-2 Through this rich ethnographic...

Landscapes in music: space, place, and time in the world's great music.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Landscapes in music: space, place, and time in the world's great music, by David B. Knight, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006, xii + 244 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-7425-4116-9 To date, the majority of books published...

Sites unseen: landscape and vision.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Sites unseen: landscape and vision, by Dianne Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggles, eds., Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, xv + 318 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8229-5959-5 Sites unseen may do for the discipline of...

Landscape.(Book review)
June 1, 2008... Landscape, by John Wylie, London, Routledge, 2007, xii +246 pp., $32.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-34144-8 Human geographers have often argued over the term 'landscape', so much so that its changing definitions are now identified with the...