GEOG 4021

Seminar in Culture, Identity and Place

0.5 credit · Undergraduate

Selected topic or field of inquiry concerning the geographic dimensions of culture, identity and place.

2026

Topics

Crang, Mike (1998) Locating culture. Chapter 1, in Cultural Geography, pp. 1-7 only. Routledge.
Hogue, Michel (2017) The Métis homeland. Canadian Geographic, November/December, pp. 54-62.
Jones, Rhys (2019) Place and identity: Wales, 'Welshness' and the Welsh language. Geography, 104(1): 19-27.
Dodge, Martin (2015) Mapping and geovisualization. In, Approaches to Human Geography: Philosophies, Theories, People and Practices, Chapter 24, pp. 289-305. Stuart C. Aitken and Gill Valentine, eds. Los
Crang, Mike (1998) People, landscapes and time. Chapter 2 in, Cultural Geography, pp. 14-26. Routledge.
Nagata, Akira and Bixia Chen (2013) Urbanites help sustain Japan’s historic rice paddy terraces.
Development & Society, May 22, 2013. Available at: https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-people-who- sustain-japans-historic-terraced-rice-fields.
Prosper, Lisa (2007) Wherein lies the heritage value? Rethinking the heritage value of cultural landscapes from an Aboriginal perspective. The George Wright Forum 24(2): 117-124. Available online at:
Tyner, Judith (2018) Persuasive map design. In, The Routledge Handbook of Mapping and Cartography, Alexander J. Kent and Peter Vujakovic, editors, Chapter 32, pp. 439-449. Routledge.
Swords, Jon, Mike Jeffries, Holly East and Sebastian Messer (2019) Mapping the city: Participatory mapping with young people. Geography, 104(3): 141-147. (Note – you are only required to read the

Prerequisite(s): GEOG 3021 and fourth-year Honours standing in Geography or permission of the Department. Seminar three hours a week.

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