Understanding cultural geography : places and traces / Jon Anderson.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-202) and index.

Introduction -- The history of cultural geography -- Branching out: twenty-first century development in the family tree of cultural geography -- Knowing (your) place -- Taking and making place: the stuff of power -- Counter-cultures: global, corporate and anti-capitalisms -- the place of nature -- The place of ethnicity -- Senses of place: scale and beliefs -- Making and marking new places: the cultural geographies of youth -- (B)ordering the body -- Swimming in context: doing cultural geography in practice -- A culturally geographical approach to place.

The book presents specific chapters outlining the history of cultural geography, before and beyond representation, as well as the methods and techniques of doing cultural geography. It investigates the places and traces of corporate capitalism, nationalism, ethnicity, youth culture and the place of the body. Throughout these chapters case study examples will be used to illustrate how these places are taken and made by particular cultures, examples include the Freedom Tower in New York City.