Journal of Cultural Geography articles from March 2005

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from March 2005

Place and humanistic African cultural geography: a Tanzanian case.
March 22, 2005... ABSTRACT. Humanistic cultural geography studies of the experience and meaning of place in sub-Saharan Africa are fairly rare. The narration of senses of place has occupied a crucial niche in Anglo-American cultural geography for several...

The hidden landscape of Yosemite National Park.
March 22, 2005... ABSTRACT. National parks share many obvious landscape characteristics. One of them goes largely unnoticed--infrastructure to provide water, sewerage, and garbage services. This paper traces the gradual adoption of romantic-era concepts about...

Stability and change on the American religious landscape: a centrographic analysis of major U.S. religious groups.
March 22, 2005... ABSTRACT. Religion is a major culture trait that is imprinted unevenly across the American religious landscape. Research utilizing church membership and adherent count data has described spatial patterns of group affiliation since the 1950s and...

The Beatles as place makers: narrated landscapes in Liverpool, England.
March 22, 2005... ABSTRACT. Forty years after their rise to international fame, the Beatles continue to be a presence on the cultural landscape. More than any other place, Liverpool remains intrinsically linked with the Beatles' legacy. This paper explores the...

Burgers for Britain: a cultural geography of McDonald's UK.
March 22, 2005... The geography of food has recently come out of the pantry.--Richard Pillsbury, No Foreign Food. ABSTRACT. McDonald's restaurants, which are often described as a unilateral symbol of American imperialism, have been a presence in British...

A Companion to Cultural Geography.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... A Companion to Cultural Geography. Edited by James Duncan, Nuala C. Johnson, and Richard Schein. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. Notes on contributors, list of figures and tables, and index, xiii+529 pp. $124.95 hardback. ISBN:...

Studying Cultural Landscapes.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Studying Cultural Landscapes. Edited by Iain Robertson and Penny Richards. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Acknowledgments, list of contributors, list of figures, list of tables, landscape glossary, bibliography, and index, xv+199 pp....

Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetic in an American Suburb. By James S. Duncan and Nancy G. Duncan. New York: Routledge, 2004. List of figures and tables, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index, xiv+261 pp. $22.95...

Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region. By Ethan R. Yorgason. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Preface, acknowledgments, notes, works cited, and index, xii+261 pp. $32.50 cloth. ISBN: 0-252-02853-8. The processes behind the...

America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention?(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention? By Larry R. Ford. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. Preface, introduction, notes, and index, vii+340 pp. $45.00 hardback. ISBN: 0-8018-7163-8. Drawing on extensive...

Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2004. Foreword, preface, acknowledgments, introduction, epilogue, notes, bibliography, and index....

Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910-1945.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910-1945. By Geoffrey L. Buckley. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2004. Acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index, xxiii+215 pp. $22.95 paper. ISBN: 0-8214-1556-5. ...

Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Cumberland Island National Seashore: A History of Conservation Conflict. By Lary M. Dilsaver. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2004. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, notes and index, x+323 pp. $35.00 cloth. ISBN:...