Journal of Cultural Geography articles from September 2004

Journal of Cultural Geography archives from September 2004

Message from the editor.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... All scholarly journals function as mouthpieces that articulate the research trajectories and priorities of a given discipline or subdiscipline. In this capacity they speak as much for a given subfield as they speak to a particular audience. But...

The contested landscape of early Yellowstone.
September 22, 2004... ABSTRACT. The damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley and the epic battle between John Muir and Gifford Pinchot over their competing visions for the future of Yosemite has often been represented as a benchmark in the history of the American conservation...

Place, activism, and development politics in the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone.
September 22, 2004... ABSTRACT. This essay presents the results of an ethnographic study of place and development politics in the Southwest Georgia United Empowerment Zone (SWGAUEZ). The zone was established as part of a 1993 federal program passed by Congress under...

The regional construction of identity and scale in Wisconsin's Holyland.
September 22, 2004... ABSTRACT. Through an examination of a regional construct, this study reveals the relationships between the processes that shape the construction of identity and scale. This paper examines the political, social, cultural, and institutional...

Globalization reconsidered: the historical geography of Modern Western Male Aattire *.
September 22, 2004... ABSTRACT. This venture into geographic terra incognita treats the historical geography of Modern Western Male Attire (MWMA). After tracing its evolution, from the fourteenth-century invention of Western Fashion and the introduction of...

Ahead, a bright but challenging future.(Dialogues)
September 22, 2004... It is good that cultural geography is thriving. Together with other positive trends, this can help to strengthen the field's foundation and identity in the new millennium. This will, however, require hard work and continuous questioning of...

Toward a newsworthy cultural geography.(Dialogues)
September 22, 2004... Geographers, particularly cultural geographers, frequently focus on topics of great social relevance; however, many of us appear reluctant to talk about our work with members of the news media. Few graduate programs instruct their students in...

The place of writing in cultural geography.(Dialogues)
September 22, 2004... From the pen of one of our most accomplished geographical practitioners comes this provocative conclusion: "Geography will deserve to be called an art only when a substantial number of geographers become artists" (Meinig 1983, 325). That...

Cultural geography: by whom, for whom?(Dialogues)
September 22, 2004... THE RISE (AND RISE?) OF CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY The "cultural turn," coupled by the "spatial turn" in recent years has drawn significant attention to cultural geography from those in other subdisciplines and disciplines. One might forgive those...

Cultural geography in a new millennium: translation, borders, and resistance.(Dialogues)
September 22, 2004... In a period in which movements of people, ideas, and technology have come under growing and intensified scrutiny it seems particularly important to reflect on the possibilities and challenges for understanding mobility in cultural geography....

Cultural geography at the millennium: a call to (intellectual) arms.(Dialogues)
September 22, 2004... It ought to be the best of times for cultural geography. Culture, it seems, is at the heart of everything. Economic geography, political geography, social geography, various environmental geographies, feminism, Marxism, post-structuralism, have...

Mythical Space, Cosmology and Landscape: Towards a Cultural Geography of India.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Mythical Space, Cosmology and Landscape: Towards a Cultural Geography of India. By Jai Pal Singh and Mumtaz Khan. Delhi, India: Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2002. Acknowledgment, glossary, and index, vi+206 hardback. ISBN 81-7827-045-5. ...

Asia's Old Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience, and Change.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Asia's Old Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience, and Change. Edited by Ronald G. Knapp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Prologue, references, and index, vi+491 pp. $29.95 hardcover. ISBN 0-19-592858-X. The interpretation of historical...

Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality. By Belden C. Lane. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Preface and notes, xii+310 pp. $18.95 (paper) ISBN 0-8018-6838-6. Belden Lane's Lmutscapes Of...

Toward a Geography of Art.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Toward a Geography of Art. By Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. List of illustrations, acknowledgments, notes, and index, xiv+490 pp. $25.00 paper. ISBN 0-226-13312-5. By tradition, the study of art in...

El Cerrito, New Mexico: Eight Generations in a Spanish Village.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... El Cerrito, New Mexico: Eight Generations in a Spanish Village By Richard L. Nostrand. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. Preface, notes, glossary, bibliography, and index. xviii+267 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8061-3546-8. ...

The Changing Scale of American Agriculture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Changing Scale of American Agriculture. By John Fraser Hart. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. List of illustrations, preface, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index, xvi+286 pp. $37.50 hardback. ISBN...

The Political Mapping of Cyberspace.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... The Political Mapping of Cyberspace. By Jeremy W. Crampton. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Acknowledgments, introduction, notes, references, and index, vii+214 pp. $25.00 paper. ISBN 0-226-11746-4. In this picturesque and...

Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture. By Sharon Zukin. New York: Routledge, 2004. Notes, acknowledgments, and index. 325 pp. $26.00 hardback. ISBN 0-415-94597-6. What a marvelous introduction to a cultural activity...