Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Representing the Place of Culture Part 1. On Representation in Cultural Geography 2. Author and Authority: Writing the New Cultural Geography 3. Sites of Representation: Place, Time and the Discourse of the Other 4. Spectacle and Text: Landscape Metaphors in Cultural Geography 5. The Lie that Blinds: Destabilizing the Text of Landscape Part 2. On Representing Residential Landscapes 6. Re-Valuing the House 7. Public Housing in Single-Industry Towns: Changing Landscapes of Paternalism 8. Co-Operative Housing as a Moral Landscape: Re-examining the Postmodern City 9. Myths and Meanings of Gentrification Part 3. On Representing Institutional Cultures 10. This Heaven Gives Me Migraines: The Problems and Promise of Landscapes of Leisure 11. The Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development: the Culture Building Process within an Institution 12. Multiculturalism: Representing a Canadian Institution 13. Representing Power: The Politics and Poetics of Urban Form in the Kandyan Kingdom Part 4. On Representing Cultural Geography 14. Representing Space: Space, Scale and Culture in Social Science 15. Interventions in the Historical Geography of Modernity: Social Theory, Spatiality and the Politics of Representation 16. Reading, Community and a Sense of Place 17. Epilogue

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James S. Duncan, David Ley

Reviews

"James Duncan and David Ley have assembled an admirable collection of essays to explore a triad of interrealted cultural processes...importantly, the collection reveals how uneven power relationships are forged and sustained through strtegic (mis)representations of culture and places."
-"Geographical Review