Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity
About the Book Series
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The Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity Series offers a forum for original and innovative research within cultural geography and connected fields. Titles within the series are empirically and theoretically informed and explore a range of dynamic and captivating topics. This series provides a forum for cutting edge research and new theoretical perspectives that reflect the wealth of research currently being undertaken. This series is aimed at upper-level undergraduates, research students and academics, appealing to geographers as well as the broader social sciences, arts and humanities.
Comics as a Research Practice: Drawing Narrative Geographies Beyond the Frame
1st Edition
By Giada Peterle
May 19, 2021
This book proposes a novel creative research practice in geography based on comics. It presents a transdisciplinary approach that uses a set of qualitative visual methods and extends from within the geohumanities across literary spatial studies, comics, urban studies, mobility studies, and beyond. ...
The Nocturnal City
1st Edition
By Robert Shaw
March 31, 2021
Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformations during the era of globalization. As the economic activity of the ‘daytime’ city has advanced into the night, other uses of the night as a time for ...
Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping: Activating Imaginaries and Means of Knowing
1st Edition
Edited
By Nancy Duxbury, W.F. Garrett-Petts, Alys Longley
September 30, 2020
Making space for imagination can shift research and community planning from a reflective stance to a "future forming" orientation and practice. Cultural mapping is an emerging discourse of collaborative, community-based inquiry and advocacy. This book looks at artistic approaches to cultural ...
Geography, Art, Research: Artistic Research in the GeoHumanities
1st Edition
By Harriet Hawkins
September 28, 2020
This book explores the intersection of geographical knowledge and artistic research in terms of both creative methods and practice-based research. In doing so it brings together geography’s ‘creative turn’ with the art world’s ‘research turn.’ Based on a decade and a half of ethnographic stories of...
Affected Labour in a Café Culture: The Atmospheres and Economics of 'Hip' Melbourne
1st Edition
By Alexia Cameron
August 14, 2020
What does it mean to work in the ‘hip’ postmodern economy? This book develops the concept of ‘affected labour’ within Melbourne, Australia. Through the lens of café and bar culture, the book provides an ethnographic investigation into the ways that affect arises, circulates, sticks and dissipates ...
Spaces of Spirituality
1st Edition
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By Nadia Bartolini, Sara MacKian, Steve Pile
August 14, 2020
Spirituality is, too often, subsumed under the heading of religion and treated as much the same kind of thing. Yet spirituality extends far beyond the spaces of religion. The spiritual makes geography strange, challenging the relationship between the known and the unknown, between the real and the ...
Creative Representations of Place
1st Edition
By Alison Barnes
June 30, 2020
Cultural geography and the social sciences have seen a rise in the use of creative methods with which to understand and represent everyday life and place. Conversely, many artists are producing work that centres on ideas of place and space and utilising empirical research methods that have a ...
Geographies of Making, Craft and Creativity
1st Edition
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By Laura Price, Harriet Hawkins
June 30, 2020
This book brings together cutting-edge research from leading international scholars to explore the geographies of making and craft. It traces the geographies of making practices from the body, to the workshop and studio, to the wider socio-cultural, economic, political, institutional and historical...
Geopoetics in Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Magrane, Linda Russo, Sarah de Leeuw, Craig Santos Perez
December 17, 2019
This breakthrough book examines dynamic intersections of poetics and geography. Gathering the essays of an international cohort whose work converges at the crossroads of poetics and the material world, Geopoetics in Practice offers insights into poetry, place, ecology, and writing the world through...
Explorations in Place Attachment
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey Smith
December 12, 2019
The book explores the unique contribution that geographers make to the concept of place attachment, and related ideas of place identity and sense of place. It presents six types of places to which people become attached and provides a global range of empirical case studies to illustrate the ...
Geographies of Digital Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Tilo Felgenhauer, Karsten Gäbler
December 12, 2019
“Digital culture” reflects the ways in which the ubiquity and increasing use of digital devices and infrastructures is changing the arenas of human experience, creating new cultural realities. Whereas much of the existing literature on digital culture addresses the topic through a sociological, ...
Arts in Place: The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice
1st Edition
By Cara Courage
February 04, 2019
This interdisciplinary book explores the role of art in placemaking in urban environments, analysing how artists and communities use arts to improve their quality of life. It explores the concept of social practice placemaking, where artists and community members are seen as equal experts in the ...