| 1 | This course is designed to: ? introduce students to the sub-discipline of ‘new’ cultural geography and to position this development within the histories of social geography and cultural geography ? enable students to think about space and culture through the lens of ‘new’ cultural geography ? provide understanding of the methods that ‘new’ cultural geographers have adopted in their studies of space and culture |
| 2 | The so-called ‘cultural turn’ in geography brought about new ways of thinking about geography and has taken social and cultural geography into an exciting new terrain in which space and place are being critically remapped. This course is for students who are interested in exploring the richness and diversity of everyday life, who want to learn to think critically about the world and their own and other people’s understandings of it. Understanding the different facets of our social and cultural world means concerning ourselves with not just the social and cultural facets of life, but with how these are bound up with the economic, political, environmental and historical, and how all of these are bound up with questions of space, spatiality and place. |