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Informationen zum Autor Kay Anderson is a part-time Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society. She is a leading, internationally recognised scholar in the fields of Cultural Geography and race historiography. Her sole-author book, Race and the Crisis of Humanism (Routledge 2007) won the 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Critical Writing and her award-winningVancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canada 1875-1980(McGill-Queens UP 1991) is in its 5th edition. She is co-editor ofEnvironment: Critical Essays in Human Geography (Ashgate 2008) and the Handbook of Cultural Geography (Sage 2002). She is an editorial board member of various journals includingCultural Geographies, Geographical Research, and City, and section editor on ‘Cultural and Social Geography’ for theEncyclopedia of Human Geography (Elsevier 2009). My research is primarily concerned with the relationship between place and the politics of identity. For example, I have undertaken a series of investigations into the relationship between the city, everyday life and the spatial constitution of power. This work has found outlets in projects such as City A-Z and also a sole authored book, Real Cities: modernity, space and the phantasmagorias of city life. This book makes a case for taking seriously the more imaginary, fantasmatic and emotional aspects of urbanism. Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Georg Simmel and various psychogeographers, Real Cities explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of city life.A further strand of work has been to intervene in how Geography, as a Discipline, is conceived in terms of its practices, content and approaches. My main contribution has been to promote the legitimacy of a psychoanalytic approach to Geography, as first set out in The Body and the City. However, this project has also involved a more cultural take on Geography itself. This can be seen in both the Handbook of Cultural Geography and Patterned Ground.The work I am conducting over the next few years, however, focuses on the body. This project is tentatively titled Fantastic Bodies. It is expected that the final outcome will be a sole authored book. Nigel Thrift is a Visiting Professor in Oxford and Tsinghua Universities. He was previously Executive Director of Schwarzman Scholars, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research at Oxford University. Klappentext Emphasizing the intellectual diversity of the discipline, the Handbook presents a comprehensive statement of the relationship between the cultural imagination and the geographical imagination while also looking at resonances between cultural geography and other disciplines. Zusammenfassung Emphasizing the intellectual diversity of the discipline! the Handbook presents a comprehensive statement of the relationship between the cultural imagination and the geographical imagination while also looking at resonances between cultural geography and other disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis A Rough Guide - Kay Anderson et al PART ONE: RETHINKING THE SOCIAL Introduction - Peter Jackson Reclaiming `the Social¿ in Social and Cultural Geography - Nicky Gregson Embodying Social Geography - Pamela Moss and Isabel Dyck Cultural Geographies of Transnationality - Katharyne Mitchell PART TWO: THE CULTURE OF ECONOMY Introduction - Trevor J Barnes Cultures of Labour - Linda McDowell Work, Employment, Identity and Economic Transformations Cultures of Money - Adam Tickell A Cultural Economic Geography of Production - Meric S Gertler Cultures of Consumption - Don Slater PART THREE: CULTURENATURES Introduction - Sarah Whatmore Geographies of Nature in the Making - Noel Castree Reanimating Cultural Geography - Jennifer Wolch, Jody Emel and Chris Wilbert `Inhabiting¿ - S...
