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1Fall 2009Professor Jennifer MapesProfessor Jennifer MapesProfessor Jennifer MapesProfessor Jennifer MapesOffice: KAP 450COffice Hours: MWF 11 am to noon,or by appointmentPhone: 213-790-0743Email
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: jmapes@usc.edu
GEOG 325: Culture and PlaceGEOG 325: Culture and PlaceGEOG 325: Culture and PlaceGEOG 325: Culture and Place
This course examines the intricacies of culture, place, and how these two concepts areinterwoven. The first portion of the course will consider the theoretical underpinnings of cultural geography, while the second half of the course will critically observe how theseconcepts play out “on the ground,” across space and in the everyday lives of thosewho inhabit those spaces. In addition to reading key writings on these topics, thiscourse will also use visual, audio, and interactive media to examine how the interactionbetween culture and place has been represented by those experiencing and observingthis interaction.
Course objectivesCourse objectivesCourse objectivesCourse objectives
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To introduce and examine critically concepts of culture and place
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To understand directions in contemporary cultural geography
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To be able to connect theoretical understandings of culture and place toeveryday life
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To recognize and interpret visual representations of culture and placeRequired textsRequired textsRequired textsRequired textsCresswell, T. 2004.
Place: A short introduction
. Blackwell.Oakes, T. and P. Price. 2008.
The Cultural Geography Reader.
Routledge. (referredto in schedule as “O&P.”) Additional required readings will be made available as PDFs, or as a reader,depending on class preference.
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Course scheduleCourse scheduleCourse scheduleCourse schedule
Cultural GeographyCultural GeographyCultural GeographyCultural GeographyCourse introduction“Culture Wars”: Don Mitchell, In
Cultural Geography: A CriticalIntroduction
“Process” (O&P): Wilbur Zelinsky“The Word Itself” (O&P): J.B. Jackson“California: The Beautiful and the Damned” (O&P): DonMitchellPlace & SpacePlace & SpacePlace & SpacePlace & Space“Space,” definition, Dictionary of Human Geography“Place,” definition, Dictionary of Human Geography“Defining Place”(Cresswell)“The Genealogy of Place”(Cresswell)“Introduction,” In
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience,
Yi-Fu Tuan.“Reading a Global Sense of Place” (Cresswell) (and, GlobalSense of Place by Dorreen Massey, included in text)CultureCultureCultureCulture“Culture” (O&P): Raymond Williams“Culture,” definition, Dictionary of Human Geography August 24 August 26 August 28 August 31September 2September 4September 9
3“The Concept(s) of culture” (O&P): William Sewell, Jr.LandscapeLandscapeLandscapeLandscape“Ten versions of the same scene,” D.W. Meinig, In
TheInterpretation of Ordinary Landscapes.
Learning from Looking: Geographic and Other Writing aboutthe American Cultural Landscape. P. Lewis.
AmericanQuarterly. 35(5): 242-261.
“Frameworks for cultural landscape study,” Paul Groth, In
Understanding Ordinary Landscapes.
“(What we talk about) when we talk about landscape”:Henderson in
Everyday Landscapes
“Geography is Everywhere” (O&P): Denis Cosgrove“Landscape,” definition, in Dictionary of Human GeographyRepresentation/tourismRepresentation/tourismRepresentation/tourismRepresentation/tourism“Representation,” Ola Soderstrom, In
Cultural Geography: Acritical dictionary of key concepts.
“Geographical Imaginations: Derek Gregory,” John Pickles, In
Key Texts in Human Geography
“The Tourist at Home” (O&P): Lucy Lippard“Touristed landscapes/seductions of place,” Carolyn Cartier, In
Seductions of Place
“Representing Place: ‘Deserted Isles’ and the Reproduction of Bikini Atoll”: Jeffrey Sasha Davis,
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
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