The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography

An up-to-date compendium of cultural and social geography that reflects the complicated dynamics at the center of both subfields

Why do places look the way they do?
Where do boundaries between neighborhoods, communities, villages, or nation-states come from?
Why do cultural and social spatialities, geographies, and dynamics matter?
How can geographers help address the multiple crises that shape our everyday lives?

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography offers critical perspectives on foundational questions in the two increasingly interconnected subdisciplines of geography, providing authoritative and up-to-date coverage of long-standing topics and emerging themes alike.

Building on The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography first published in 2013, this revised and expanded volume brings together original essays by an international panel of contributors, with special emphasis on the work of early-career scholars, geographers of color, and geographers from the Global South.

Organized thematically, the Companion presents "Global Dispatches" from cultural geographers working in different locations and disciplines, explains core concepts in cultural and social geography, addresses a broad range of particular geographies, and offers geographic insights into critical issues such as climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual and digital worlds, and the racial reckonings of recent years.

With a diversity of writing styles, narratives, and analyses, the Companion uses a geographic lens to explore the cultural and social dynamics of labor, migration, justice, protest, nationalism, borders, public health, urban planning, indigeneity, class, race, sexualities, and much more.

Accessible and highly relevant to today's students, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Cultural and Social Geography is an ideal textbook for undergraduate or graduate courses on cultural or social geography, cultural studies, cultural sociology, and ethnic studies.