Recently added articles from Journal of Cultural Geography:
The gendering of Asian Indian transnationalism on the Internet.
Jun 01, 2008; Adams, Paul C. ... Online activities offer immigrants an important way to maintain and recreate transnational linkages across space and time. Even though one enters cyberspace as a disembodied participant, fundamental aspects of bodily difference--gender, age, and race--shape the online activity that occurs ...
Modifying sense of place in a federal company town: Sunflower Village, Kansas, 1942 to 1959.
Jun 01, 2008; Post, Chris ... The federal government built Sunflower Village, Kansas, to house employees of the Sunflower Ordnance Plant and their families during World War II. The community existed in this fashion until 1959 when a private real-estate developer bought the land and buildings. The Village evolved out of ...
Recalcitrant space: modeling variation in humanistic geography.
Jun 01, 2008; Davidson, Ronald A. ... In the past decade humanistic geography has been roundly criticized by influential geographers for offering essentialist conceptions of place. In this paper it is argued that essentialism is not intrinsic to these conceptions, and a model of 'recalcitrant space' is presented to show how ...
Technology and geographical imaginations: representing aviation in 1930s Italy.
Jun 01, 2008; Caprotti, Federico ... This paper examines the geographical imaginations associated with aviation in fascist Italy, focusing on the representation of flight on the one hand, and on the other hand the role of propaganda flights organized by the regime in the 1930s. The representation and use of aviation in ...
Chicago: a geography of the city and its region.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Oberle, Alex P. ... Chicago: a geography of the city and its region, by John C. Hudson, Santa Fe, Center for American Places, 2006, xvi +260 pp., $45.00 (paperback), ISBN 0-226-35806-2 If you were to ask a budding geography major about the geography of Chicago they would probably mention rail ...
Antonio's gun and Delfino's dream: true tales of Mexican migration.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Smith, Jeffrey S. ... Antonio's gun and Delfino's dream: true tales of Mexican migration, by Sam Quinones, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 2007, 318 pp., $24.9 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-8263-4254-6 Each year approximately 600,000 Mexicans leave their home country and emigrate to the United ...
Regulating the night: race, culture and exclusion in the making of the night-time economy.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Kennell, James ... Regulating the night: race, culture and exclusion in the making of the night-time economy, by Deborah Talbot, Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing, 2007, i + 156 pp., $99.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-7546-4752-2 Through this rich ethnographic account of cultural and social change ...
Landscapes in music: space, place, and time in the world's great music.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Flynn, William ... Landscapes in music: space, place, and time in the world's great music, by David B. Knight, Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006, xii + 244 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN: 0-7425-4116-9 To date, the majority of books published in music geography have consisted of ...
Sites unseen: landscape and vision.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; Whalen, Ken ... Sites unseen: landscape and vision, by Dianne Harris and D. Fairchild Ruggles, eds., Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007, xv + 318 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8229-5959-5 Sites unseen may do for the discipline of landscape architecture what Iconography ... ...
Landscape.(Book review)
Jun 01, 2008; De Bres, Karen ... Landscape, by John Wylie, London, Routledge, 2007, xii +246 pp., $32.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-34144-8 Human geographers have often argued over the term 'landscape', so much so that its changing definitions are now identified with the various schools of Anglo-American ...