Cultural Geography
Cultural Geography
The word "culture" derives from the Latin word "colere” means cultivation of nurture.
What is culture means Cultus “ to care about.” [18]
Carl Sauer (1889-1975) USA, considered as the father of Cultural geography, a geographer of
the University of California-Berkeley. [1]
Culture is thus seen as a "system of power fully integrated into the political economy" (p. 85),
and Mitchell calls geographers to engage in a demonstration of just how spaces and places are
produced and constantly reasserted to ensure the reproduction of a social geography that benefits
the dominant class (i.e.: white, upper-class and upper middle-class, straight males). [23]
A cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a culture group. Culture is the
agent, the natural area is the medium. The cultural landscape is the result. [1]
Culture includes mentifacts like religion and language, artifacts like books and movies, and
sociofacts such as gender identity. Culture helps create identity, meaning, and continuity in
human society. [3]
World Cultural Regions
From: Pinterest
Geographers drawing on this tradition see cultures and societies as developing out of their local
landscapes but also shaping those landscapes. [1]
Globalization is also becoming increasingly important to cultural geography as it is allowing
these specific aspects of culture to easily travel across the globe. [9]
In the late 19th century, cultural geography sought to compare and contrast different cultures
around the world and their relationship to natural environments. This approach has its roots in
the anthropogeography of Friedrich Ratzel and, in common with anthropology, it aimed to
, Cultural Geography
understand cultural practices, social organizations, and indigenous knowledge’s, but gave
emphasis to people’s connections with and use of place and nature. [16]
Cultural geography is an exciting, lively and diverse field, the energy and vitality. Cultural
geographies, as currently practised, are now much wider in scope than developments within a
single branch of human geography. [17]
According to Denis Edmund Cosgrove (1994), UK:
“Cultural Geography is a subfield of Human Geography which focuses “upon the patterns and
interactions of human culture, both material and non-material, in relation to the natural
environment and the human organization of space” [2]
As per International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2009
Later cultural geographies of landscape, which ‘read’ landscapes as constructed texts and
expressions of power (colonial, gender, economic, ideological), differ from dwelling in that they
do not focus on the emergent coming-into-beingness of landscape in which the properties,
vitalities, agencies, trajectories, and velocities of humans and nonhumans (rocks, weather
patterns, plants, animals, people, technologies) combine to produce a unique chemistry out of
which particular patterns of landscape, place, and life form.
Some of the main cultural phenomena studied in cultural geography include language, religion,
different economic and governmental structures, art, music etc. [4]
Cultural geography is the study of how the physical environment interacts with ways of life and
traditions of people. Cultural geographers study language, art, communication, religion,
economics, and government structures. [5]
Today, cultural geography is still practiced and more specialized fields within it such as feminist
geography, children's geography, tourism studies, urban geography, the geography of sexuality
and space, and political geography have developed to further aid in the study of cultural practices
and human activities as they relate spatially to the world. [9]
Concept of Cultural Geography: Cultural geography is one of the two major
branches of geography (versus physical geography) and is often called
human geography. Cultural geography is the study of the many cultural
aspects found throughout the world and how they relate to the spaces and
places where they originate and then travel as people continually move
across various areas. [13]
The excitement of cultural geography lies in the ways that meanings and social understandings
are constructed, contested and negotiated, and in exploring the diverse ways these fuse and
splinter around intersecting notions of culture, place and space. [20]
Cultural Geography
The word "culture" derives from the Latin word "colere” means cultivation of nurture.
What is culture means Cultus “ to care about.” [18]
Carl Sauer (1889-1975) USA, considered as the father of Cultural geography, a geographer of
the University of California-Berkeley. [1]
Culture is thus seen as a "system of power fully integrated into the political economy" (p. 85),
and Mitchell calls geographers to engage in a demonstration of just how spaces and places are
produced and constantly reasserted to ensure the reproduction of a social geography that benefits
the dominant class (i.e.: white, upper-class and upper middle-class, straight males). [23]
A cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a culture group. Culture is the
agent, the natural area is the medium. The cultural landscape is the result. [1]
Culture includes mentifacts like religion and language, artifacts like books and movies, and
sociofacts such as gender identity. Culture helps create identity, meaning, and continuity in
human society. [3]
World Cultural Regions
From: Pinterest
Geographers drawing on this tradition see cultures and societies as developing out of their local
landscapes but also shaping those landscapes. [1]
Globalization is also becoming increasingly important to cultural geography as it is allowing
these specific aspects of culture to easily travel across the globe. [9]
In the late 19th century, cultural geography sought to compare and contrast different cultures
around the world and their relationship to natural environments. This approach has its roots in
the anthropogeography of Friedrich Ratzel and, in common with anthropology, it aimed to
, Cultural Geography
understand cultural practices, social organizations, and indigenous knowledge’s, but gave
emphasis to people’s connections with and use of place and nature. [16]
Cultural geography is an exciting, lively and diverse field, the energy and vitality. Cultural
geographies, as currently practised, are now much wider in scope than developments within a
single branch of human geography. [17]
According to Denis Edmund Cosgrove (1994), UK:
“Cultural Geography is a subfield of Human Geography which focuses “upon the patterns and
interactions of human culture, both material and non-material, in relation to the natural
environment and the human organization of space” [2]
As per International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2009
Later cultural geographies of landscape, which ‘read’ landscapes as constructed texts and
expressions of power (colonial, gender, economic, ideological), differ from dwelling in that they
do not focus on the emergent coming-into-beingness of landscape in which the properties,
vitalities, agencies, trajectories, and velocities of humans and nonhumans (rocks, weather
patterns, plants, animals, people, technologies) combine to produce a unique chemistry out of
which particular patterns of landscape, place, and life form.
Some of the main cultural phenomena studied in cultural geography include language, religion,
different economic and governmental structures, art, music etc. [4]
Cultural geography is the study of how the physical environment interacts with ways of life and
traditions of people. Cultural geographers study language, art, communication, religion,
economics, and government structures. [5]
Today, cultural geography is still practiced and more specialized fields within it such as feminist
geography, children's geography, tourism studies, urban geography, the geography of sexuality
and space, and political geography have developed to further aid in the study of cultural practices
and human activities as they relate spatially to the world. [9]
Concept of Cultural Geography: Cultural geography is one of the two major
branches of geography (versus physical geography) and is often called
human geography. Cultural geography is the study of the many cultural
aspects found throughout the world and how they relate to the spaces and
places where they originate and then travel as people continually move
across various areas. [13]
The excitement of cultural geography lies in the ways that meanings and social understandings
are constructed, contested and negotiated, and in exploring the diverse ways these fuse and
splinter around intersecting notions of culture, place and space. [20]
