The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography

Addresses both social and cultural geography in a single volume, authored and edited by leading authorities in the fields

The Companion to Social and Cultural Geography provides reliable and up-to-date coverage of both foundational topics and emerging themes within two vibrant and increasingly interconnected subdisciplines of geography. Building upon the Companion to Cultural Geography first published in 2013, editors Ishan Ashutosh and Jamie Winders offer an expertly curated collection of original essays with special emphasis on early-career scholars, geographers of color, and geographers from the Global South.

Organized thematically, the Companion opens with a series of "Global Dispatches" from cultural and social geographers working in different disciplines and locations, followed by explorations of key concepts in social and cultural geography such as identity, belonging, solidarity, inequalities, and intersectional geographies. Subsequent chapters examine a wide range of cultural and social geographies, including creativity, technologies, science, nature, memory, tourism, migration, labor, and religion. Throughout the Companion, authors share fresh insights into the racial reckonings of late, ongoing issues related to climate change, the consequences of COVID-19, and more.

Across its 46 chapters, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography:

• Examines how approaches to human-environment dynamics in social and cultural geography help shed light on current challenges
• Covers critical topics such as justice, protest, borders, public health, urban planning, indigeneity, genders, class, race, and sexualities
• Emphasizes the value of a geographic perspective to understanding social and cultural dynamics
• Discusses how geography has confronted its deep connections to colonialism, imperialism, and white supremacy
• Addresses a range of emerging and established themes, including queer and transgender geographies, Black geographies, animal geographies, and cultural geographies of states
• Incorporates a diversity of writing styles, narratives, and analyses, such as interviews, conversations, short essays, autobiography, and autoethnography

Accessible, authoritative, and highly relevant to today's students, the Companion to Social and Cultural Geography is an essential textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on social or cultural geography, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and ethnic studies.

Notes on Contributors ix

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction 1
Ishan Ashutosh and Jamie Winders

Global Dispatches on Cultural and Social Geography

1 Lessons from COVID, If We Will Just Listen 15
Susan Craddock

2 Duture Neza, Duture Heza: Planning and Building a "Liberal Peace" 23
Delia Duong Ba Wendel

3 Social/Cultural Geography in/on the "Middle East" 37
Karen Culcasi

4 Social and Cultural Geography of Southeast Asia and East Asia: Inter-Asian Connections and Connectivities 45
Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho

Foundational Concepts in Cultural and Social Geography

5 Place 55
Mary Gilmartin

6 "Non-"/"More-than-" Representational Theories 65
Ben Anderson

7 Mappings 79
Arnisson Andre C. Ortega

8 Inequalities 95
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

9 Intersectional Geographies 107
Ellen Kohl, Cristina Faiver-Serna, and Tianna Bruno

10 Solidarity 121
Paul Griffin

11 Virtual Environments, Material Relations: Theorizing Virtual Reality in the Context of Environmental Crisis 131
Claire Fitch

Cultural and Social Belonging

12 Race 145
Mabel Denzin Gergan

13 Black Geographies 159
Brandi T. Summers and Juleon Robinson

14 Genders 171
Emily Mitchell-Eaton interviewing Anindita Datta

15 Class 181
Brian Hennigan

16 Queer and Transgender Geographies 195
Daniel Cockayne

17 Nationalism, Populism 207
Angharad Closs Stephens

18 Cuerpo-Territorio and Indigenous Geographies Otherwise: Epistemological Irreverences and Embodying Territorialities in Praxis 217
Nohely Guzmán

19 Aging across the Life Course 233\
Menusha De Silva

20 Ability 243
Robert Wilton and Edward Hall

Cultural and Social Geographies of...

21 Creativities/Performance 257
Harriet Hawkins

22 The Visual 269
Antje Schlottmann and Judith Miggelbrink

23 Sound and Aural Geographies 285
Christabel Devadoss

24 Futures 297
Tim Bunnell and Si Jie Ivin Yeo

25 Memory and Reckoning 309
Jordan Brasher, Derek H. Alderman, and Mark Rhodes

26 Production/Labor/Work 323
Kathryne Gravestock, Véronique Sioufi, and Kendra Strauss

27 Cultural Geographies of States 335
Suncana Laketa

28 Geological, Oceanic, Ontological: Reorienting Cultural and Social Geographies of Nature 345
Matthew Himley and Andrea Marston

29 Science 359
Casey R. Lynch and Kerri Jean Ormerod

30 Tourism, Leisure, and Consumption: Chinese Tourists in Macau 371
Tim Simpson and Benjamin Kidder Hodges

31 Animal Geographies 385
Jamie Lorimer

32 Cultural Geographies of Food 397
Catarina Passidomo

33 Migration 411
Ishan Ashutosh

34 Digital Lives/Spaces 425
James Ash

35 Affect-Emotions 435
Avril Maddrell

36 Rural Geography 445
Peter B. Nelson

37 Centering Urban Autoethnographies on the Margins 459
Stefano Bloch

38 Suburban(ism) 471
Alison L. Bain and Julie A. Podmore

39 Home and Domestic Space 483
Mel Nowicki

40 Religion 493
Orlando Woods

41 Care Geographies: Work, Home, and Bodies 505
Samantha Thompson and Kim England

Struggles

42 Humanizing Climate Change 519
Eve Z. Bratman

43 Borders 535
Ilaria Giglioli

44 From Postcolonial to Decolonial 545
Declan Cullen, Jamie Winders, and James Ryan

45 Protest 557
Nicholas Jon Crane

46 Justice 569
Phil Neel, Drew Heiderscheidt, and Jennifer Watkins

Index 579

ISHAN ASHUTOSH is Associate Professor of Geography at Indiana University-Bloomington. Ishan's research examines the multiple and contested representations of South Asia through projects situated at the intersection of diaspora and migration, area studies, and geography. His publications include articles in Cultural Geographies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Annals in the American Association of Geographers, Geography Compass, Journal of Historical Geography, and Geographical Review, among others.

JAMIE WINDERS is Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. Her research explores themes of international migration, racial politics, social reproduction, and artificial intelligence. She is the co-author of A Critical Introduction to Cultural Geography and a co-editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography. Winders is Associate Editor of Cultural Geographies and the founding Director of the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute.

An up-to-date compendium of cultural and social geography that reflects the complicated dynamics at the center of both subfields

Why do places look the way they do?
Where do boundaries between neighborhoods, communities, villages, or nation-states come from?
Why do cultural and social spatialities, geographies, and dynamics matter?
How can geographers help address the multiple crises that shape our everyday lives?

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography offers critical perspectives on foundational questions in the two increasingly interconnected subdisciplines of geography, providing authoritative and up-to-date coverage of long-standing topics and emerging themes alike.

Building on The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography first published in 2013, this revised and expanded volume brings together original essays by an international panel of contributors, with special emphasis on the work of early-career scholars, geographers of color, and geographers from the Global South.

Organized thematically, the Companion presents "Global Dispatches" from cultural geographers working in different locations and disciplines, explains core concepts in cultural and social geography, addresses a broad range of particular geographies, and offers geographic insights into critical issues such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual and digital worlds, and the racial reckonings of recent years.

With a diversity of writing styles, narratives, and analyses, the Companion uses a geographic lens to explore the cultural and social dynamics of labor, migration, justice, protest, nationalism, borders, public health, urban planning, indigeneity, class, race, sexualities, and much more.

Accessible and highly relevant to today's students, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography is an ideal textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on cultural or social geography, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and ethnic studies.