Ch 5 Cultural Geography

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Chapter 5: Cultural
Geographies
Chapter 5 Lecture
Katie Pratt
Macalester College
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Key Concepts
Figure: Chapter 5 Opener Transgender men
participants in the Miss Tiffany’s Universe beauty
pageant.

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• Culture
– Shared set of meanings
– Always evolving
– Dynamic concept
– Globalization impacts culture
Culture as a Geographical Process
Figure 5.1 Star Trek fans.
Figure 5.2 St Patrick’s Day in Japan.

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• Cultural geography
– Space, place, and landscape
– Ongoing process
– Two-way relationship between geography and culture
Culture as a Geographical Process (cont’d)
Figure 5.3 The Internet of Things.

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• Folk and popular culture as artificial categories
Culture as a Geographical Process (cont’d)
Figure 5.4 Tamil hip-hop.
Apply your knowledge: Identify three aspects of your own culture and the ways
that place and space have shaped it.

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• Carl Sauer
• Cultural landscape
Building Cultural Complexes
Figure 5.5 Cultural landscape in
Kenya.

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• Critiques of Sauer’s cultural landscape
Building Cultural Complexes (cont'd)
Figure 5.6 Sauer's cultural landscape, summarized.
Apply your knowledge: Reflecting on Sauer’s words on how culture shapes
landscape, think of one example where you have seen this take place.

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UNESCO World Heritage Landscapes
(Visualizing Geography)
Figure 5.1.1 UNESCO
World Heritage Sites.

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• European approaches to culture and place
• Historical geography
• Genre de vie
Building Cultural Complexes (cont'd)
Figure 5.7 Market gardens in Corsica.
Apply your knowledge: What are differences between American and
European approaches to studying human interactions in the landscape?

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• Cultural trait
• Cultural complex
• Cultural region
Building Cultural Complexes (cont'd)
Figure 5.8 Tuareg men in Niger.
Figure 5.9 Chinese toddler using chopsticks. Figure 5.10 This South-Korean coming of
age ceremony is a right of passage.
Apply your knowledge: How does looking at cultural complexes help us better
understand the relationship between humans and places they live?

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Shaping Place through Fact and Fiction
Figure 5.B “La Casa de Estudillo” house
in Old Town San Diego. Figure 5.C Souvenirs from the nineteenth-
century novel Romona.
Apply your knowledge: Look around you both at home and in stores. What
souvenirs do you find? What do they remind you of? What geographies—of
landscapes, emotions, peoples, and travels—do these material objects recall for you
or for their collectors?

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• Broad similarities at the national, regional, or local
level
Cultural Systems
Figure 5.11 Baseball regions, the United States.

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• Kinship
• Tribe
Cultural Systems (cont’d)
Figure 5.12 Tribes of India.
Apply your knowledge: What is the differences between kinship and tribe?
Identify two other places in the world where tribal relationships are key to the
culture?

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• Sex and gender
– Not separate categories
– Multitude of sexes
– Gender as socially constructed
• Gender identity
Culture and Identity
Figure 5.13 Biological–Psychosocial Phenotype:
Mutual influences of sex and gender. Figure 5.14 Masculinity and the
dandy in the nineteenth century.

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• Feminism and gender
• Intersectionality
• Gender and class
Culture and Identity (cont’d)
Figure 5.15 Turkish women in Berlin, Germany
are veiled, in contrast to the women in the
crowd behind.
Apply your knowledge: What do you think of the UN statement that,
“No society treats its women as well as its men”? Why do you think that
is?
How do you think that can change?

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The Global Gender Gap
Figure 5.D The global
gender gap.

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• Ethnicity
Culture and Identity (cont’d)
Figure 5.16 Uyghur protest in the city of
Urumqui.
Figure 5.17 Arab Street neighborhood in
Singapore.
Apply your knowledge: Define all the different ways geographers analyze
cultural identity: sex, gender, and ethnicity. Are there other categories that
you think are critical in assessing cultural identity?

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• Race
• Racialization
• Whiteness, blackness,
and rap music
– Blackophobia
– Blackophilia
– White privilege
– White supremacy
Culture and Identity (cont’d)
Figure 5.18 Students protesting against racist
land rights legislation in Melbourne, Australia.
Apply your knowledge: What are other examples like “blackophobia”
and “blackophilia” in your everyday life?

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• Geographies of disability
• Children’s geographies
• Geographies of childhood
Culture and Identity (cont’d)
Figure 5.19 Disability and space.
Figure 5.20 Free play and environmental
exploration.
Apply your knowledge: Looking at geographies of race, disability, and
children—what is the role of power in each of these areas of study?

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Emergent Cultural Geographies
• Actor-network theory
• Non-representational theory
– Affect
Figure 5.21 An actor-network. Figure 5.22 U.S. flag raised at Ground
Zero, NYC.

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Emergent Cultural Geographies (cont’d)
• Emotional geographies
• Materialism
Figure 5.23 Genocide Museum,
Rwanda.
Figure 5.24 Statue of Bussa, Barbados.
Apply your knowledge: What is the difference between “affect” and “emotion”? Can you
think of an example when you have been in a particular space and experiences “affect”?

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• Americanization
• Global Culture
– World music
Globalization and Cultural Change
Figure 5.25 Top feature films, 2013. Figure 5.26 Bossa nova dancers.
Apply your knowledge: Why has the “culture of beauty”—which used to be very
specific to different places in the world—become Westernized? What do you think
might be lost as a result of a “global standard of beauty”? Can anything be gained?

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Geographies of Beauty and Plastic Surgery
Figure 5.G Plastic surgery worldwide.
Figure 5.E Mauritanian
norms of female beauty.
Apply your knowledge: How has the spread of capitalism “displaced” beauty
norms and what are some of the effects of this displacement?

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• Protecting cultural diversity: UN Convention on the
Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural
Expressions (2005)
Future Geographies
Figure 5.27 The cultural economy.