Doing Cultural Geography

Introduction - Pamela Shurmer-Smith PART ONE: THEORY INTO PRACTICE The Trouble with Theory - Pamela Shurmer-Smith Humanistic and Behaviouralist Geography - Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer-Smith Marx and After - Pamela Shurmer-Smith Poststructuralist Cultural Geography - Pamela Shurmer-Smith Feminist Cultural Geography - Carol Ekinsmyth Postcolonial Geographies - Pamela Shurmer-Smith PART TWO: DOING IT Selecting Topics for Study - Katy Bennett, Carol Ekinsmyth and Pamela Shurmer-Smith Methods and Methodology - Pamela Shurmer-Smith Extensive Methods - Tim Brown Using Secondary Data Using Archives - Kevin Hannam Reading Texts - Pamela Shurmer-Smith Participant Observation - Katy Bennett Interviews and Focus Groups - Katy Bennett Field Observation - Louis Shurmer-Smith and Pamela Shurmer-Smith Looking at Paris Feminist Methodology - Carol Ekinsmyth PART THREE: MAKING SENSE Coping with Archival and Textual Data - Kevin Hannam Handling Case Studies - Katy Bennett and Pamela Shurmer-Smith Representation of Research - Katy Bennett and Pamela Shurmer-Smith Creating a Text Concluding Thoughts - Pamela Shurmer-Smith

`This is a much-needed introduction to the practice of cultural geography which demystifies the research process and enriches our understanding and experience of the world. Written with conviction and good humour, Doing Cultural Geography is a hands-on guide that students will love, taking them through the various stages of selecting a topic, drawing on different theoretical frameworks to ask rigorous research questions, choosing appropriate methods, putting them into practice, interpreting the results and writing them up. Drawing on the authors' own research, Doing Cultural Geography is an invitation to take the insights of cultural geography beyond the classroom and to use of experience of everyday life to enrich the research process. It is an invitation that readers will find hard to resist' - Professor Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield