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The term was criticized by James M. Blaut: "the word metageography seems to have been coined by the authors as an impressive-sounding synonym for 'world cultural geography.'" [4] Lewis and Wigen, however, disagreed, arguing that every consideration of human affairs employs a metageography as a structuring force on one's conception of the world [5]
Peter J. Taylor commended the book as a crucial exploration of critical metageography, emphasizing the significance of understanding how we structure our world spatially. Taylor emphasized the book's identification and critical examination of four geographical myths: continents, nation-states, east and west, and geographical concordance.
Harm J. de Blij (see IJ (digraph); closest pronunciation: "duh blay") (October 9, 1935 – March 25, 2014) [1] [2] [3] was a Dutch-American geographer.He was a geography editor on ABC's Good Morning America and an editor of National Geographic magazine and the author of several books, including Why Geography Matters.
A culture area is a concept in cultural anthropology in which a geographic region and time sequence is characterized by shared elements of environment and culture. [3]A precursor to the concept of culture areas originated with museum curators and ethnologists during the late 1800s as means of arranging exhibits, combined with the work of taxonomy.
The Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) is a British think tank that studies the relationships between world cities in the context of globalization. It is based in the geography department of Loughborough University in Leicestershire, United Kingdom. GaWC was founded by Peter J. Taylor in 1998. [1]
Cultural geography is a subfield within human geography.Though the first traces of the study of different nations and cultures on Earth can be dated back to ancient geographers such as Ptolemy or Strabo, cultural geography as academic study firstly emerged as an alternative to the environmental determinist theories of the early 20th century, which had believed that people and societies are ...
Pages in category "Books about cultural geography" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The People’s Property? Power, Politics, and the Public (with Lynn Staeheli, 2008). New York: Routledge. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (2003). New York: Guilford Press. Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction (2000). Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 1-55786-892-1