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Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry

PUBLISHER Routledge (03/24/2015)
PRODUCT TYPE Hardcover (Hardcover)

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This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping, offering a range of perspectives that are international in scope. Cultural mapping is a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in urban planning, cultural sustainability, and community development that makes visible the ways local stories, practices, relationships, memories, and rituals constitute places as meaningful locations. The chapters address themes, processes, approaches, and research methodologies drawn from examples in Australia, Canada, Estonia, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Palestine, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Ukraine. Contributors explore innovative ways to encourage urban and cultural planning, community development, artistic intervention, and public participation in cultural mapping--recognizing that public involvement and artistic practices introduce a range of challenges spanning various phases of the research process, from the gathering of data, to interpreting data, to presenting "findings" to a broad range of audiences. The book responds to the need for histories and case studies of cultural mapping that are globally distributed and that situate the practice locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

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ISBN-13: 9781138821866
ISBN-10: 1138821861
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book (Sewn)
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 396
Carton Quantity: 18
Product Dimensions: 6.10 x 1.00 x 9.10 inches
Weight: 1.45 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Maps, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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BISAC Categories
Reference | Research
Reference | Methodology
Reference | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey Decimal: 001.4
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015004281
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This edited collection provides an introduction to the emerging interdisciplinary field of cultural mapping, offering a range of perspectives that are international in scope. Cultural mapping is a mode of inquiry and a methodological tool in urban planning, cultural sustainability, and community development that makes visible the ways local stories, practices, relationships, memories, and rituals constitute places as meaningful locations. The chapters address themes, processes, approaches, and research methodologies drawn from examples in Australia, Canada, Estonia, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Palestine, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Ukraine. Contributors explore innovative ways to encourage urban and cultural planning, community development, artistic intervention, and public participation in cultural mapping--recognizing that public involvement and artistic practices introduce a range of challenges spanning various phases of the research process, from the gathering of data, to interpreting data, to presenting "findings" to a broad range of audiences. The book responds to the need for histories and case studies of cultural mapping that are globally distributed and that situate the practice locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

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Editor: Garrett-Petts, W. F.
W.F. Garrett-Petts is a writer and teacher. He is the co-director of CURA (Community University Research Alliance) and Associate Professor and Chair of English and Modern Languages at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops. He is the author of several books, a contributor to CBC Radio and the curator of two gallery installations.
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Editor: MacLennan, David
David MacLennan is a writer and photographer. He earned his BA in English literature from McGill University and his graduate diploma in journalism from Concordia University. He has been collecting jokes of various genres for some time, and has written eight other humour books.
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