Includes bibliographic references and index.

Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Nuala C. Johnson, Richard H. Schein and Jamie Winders -- Theoretical dispatches -- Postcolonialism / Tariq Jazeeel -- Poststructuralism / John Paul Jones III -- Feminist theory / Mary E. Thomas and Patricia Ehrkamp -- Materialities / Hayden Lorimer -- Affect / Deborah Dixon and Elizabeth R. Straughan -- Historical materialism / Don Mitchell -- Foundations -- Cultural geography in practice / Catherine Nash -- Critical "race" approaches / Audrey Kobayashi -- Gender / Geraldine Pratt and Berrak Çavlan ERengezgin -- Social class : position, place, culture and meaning / Linda McDowell -- Geographies of sexualities : the cultural turn and after / Natalie Oswin -- Place / Patricia L. Price -- Nationalism / John Agnew -- Object lessons : from Batholith to bookend / Caitlin DeSilvey -- Landscapes -- Economic landscapes / Niall Majury -- Polticial landscapes / Nuala C. Johnson -- Landscapes of memory and socially just futures / Derek H. Alderman and Joshua F. J. Inwood -- Consumption and landscpae / Mona Domosh -- Landscape and justice / Tom Mels and Don Mitchell -- Rural landscapes / Paul Cloke -- Seeing seeing seeing the legal landscape / David Delaney -- Aging / Elizabeth A. Gagen -- Children / Youth / Meghan Cope -- Urban landscapes / Tim Bunnell -- Domesticities / Robyn Dowling and Emma R. Power -- Natures / Cultures -- Choosing metaphors for the anthropocene : cultural and political ecologies / Paul Robbins --Biotechnologies and biomedicine / Brnwyn Parry -- Animal geographies / Jamie Lorimer and Krithika Srinivasan -- Food's cultural geographies : texture, creativity and publics / Ian Cook, Peter Jackson, Allison Hayes-Conroy, Sebastian Abrahamsson, Rebecca Sandover, Mimi Sheller, Heike Henderson, Lucius Hallett, Shoko Imai, Damian Maye and Ann Hill -- Environmental histories / Robert M. Wilson -- Science wars / David N. Livingstone -- Circulations / Networks / Fixities -- From global dispossession to local repossession : towards a wordly cultural geography of occupy activism / Matthew Sparkle -- Political moves : cultural geographies of migration and difference / Rachel Silvey -- Mappings / Jeremy W. Crampton -- Landscape, locative media and the duplicity of code / Andrew Boulton and Matthew Zook -- Affect and emotion / Ben Anderson -- Tourism / Chris Gibson -- Borders and border-crossings / Anssi Paasi The imperial present : geography, impeerialism and its contiuned effects / John Morrissey -- Postcolonialism / Declan Cullen, James Ryan and Jamie Winders -- Index.

Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives, this authoritative reference volume offers an up-to-date and substantive analysis of cultural geography.