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Wilbert M. Gesler - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Therapeutic landscapes: medical issues in light of the new Cultural Geography.
    Social science & medicine (1982), 1992
    Co-Authors: Wilbert M. Gesler
    Abstract:

    Employing an expanded meaning of the concept of landscape taken from the 'new' Cultural Geography, this paper explores why certain places or situations are perceived to be therapeutic. Themes from both traditional and recent work in Cultural Geography are illustrated with examples from the literature of the social science of health care. The themes include man-environment relationships; humanist concepts such as sense of place and symbolic landscapes; structuralist concepts such as hegemony and territoriality; and blends of humanist concerns, structuralist concerns, and time Geography. The intention of this broad overview is to bring some particularly useful concepts developed in Cultural Geography to the attention of social scientists interested in matters of health and to stimulate research along new lines.

  • the Cultural Geography of health care
    1991
    Co-Authors: Wilbert M. Gesler
    Abstract:

    In health care delivery and health care research, basic concepts of Cultural behaviour are frequently ignored - at a high personal and financial cost - because both fields are dominated by technical solutions and quantitative analysis. They have little use for what is often regarded as irrelevant information. In this wide-ranging book, written for students and nonspecialists, Wilbert M. Gesler applies Cultural Geography to health care and shows that throughout the world, in Western and developing countries alike, the social scientists can help inform the medical sciences and make them more effective and less expensive. Gesler argues that medical systems must be seen in a social context. Any medical system has five elements: illness, people, resources, environment, and beliefs. If the medical practitioner does not understand the patient within the context of the patient's society, culture and beliefs, the treatment will be threatened. For example, a formally trained physician in a Boston hospital who fails to understand the socioeconomic background of a patient can do more inadvertent damage than the practitioner from the folk culture of a developing country. Many people practice geophagy (eating earth), but the reasons vary between Africans, who may do so for reasons of diet, and Americans, who often have Cultural and phychological concerns. The folk drugs of Appalachia - plants - are scorned by traditional practitioners of American medicine but are to be understood and appreciated within their physical and social context. In a wide variety of comparisons such as these, Professor Gesler applies religion, ecology, evolution, , diffusion, folk culture, language, political economy, and sense of place to medicine as it as practiced in India, Thailand, South Korea, Ethiopia, the United States, amd many other countries. "The Cultural Geography of health care" discusses a multitude of social, scientific, and Cultural concepts in a variety of settings. It is clear, stimulating and highly readable introduction to the relationship between the "hard" and "soft" sciences that is becoming the fulcrum for medicine; it will be invaluable for students of medicine, the health professions, and the social sciences.

Ben Anderson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Cultural Geography III: The concept of ‘culture’:
    Progress in Human Geography, 2019
    Co-Authors: Ben Anderson
    Abstract:

    In my third report I argue that three versions of the concept of culture coexist in Cultural Geography in the wake of an interest in life and living: culture as assembled effect, culture as mediate...

  • Cultural Geography II: The force of representations:
    Progress in Human Geography, 2018
    Co-Authors: Ben Anderson
    Abstract:

    Cultural Geography is once again concerned with representations. In this report I focus on how, in the wake of various non-representational theories, recent work stays with what texts, images, words, and other representations do. I argue that this work is animated by a concern with the force of representations: their capacities to affect and effect, to make a difference. Accompanying this orientation to questions of force is a shift in the unit of analysis to ‘representations-in-relation’ and a multiplication of the modes of analysis through which Cultural Geography is performed, including the emergence of reparative and descriptive modes.

  • Cultural Geography 1 intensities and forms of power
    Progress in Human Geography, 2017
    Co-Authors: Ben Anderson
    Abstract:

    In the first of three reviews I focus on how Cultural Geography is exploring modes and forms of power in relation to various contemporary conditions, including research on precaritization, dispossession, the state, and anti-black violence. A common concern in this work is with how power relations and effects are lived as part of the composition of experience. I demonstrate how this emphasis on experience manifests in attention to the specificities of modes of power and their intensities (how the effects of power come to form and are present/absent) and forms (how power relations are arranged into specific shapes or patterns).

  • matter s in social and Cultural Geography
    Geoforum, 2004
    Co-Authors: Ben Anderson, Divya P Toliakelly
    Abstract:

    Social and Cultural Geography has recently been enlivened by a renewed encounter with the diverse problematics that surround matter and materialism. This has taken form in a number of high profile calls for the re-materialisation of social and Cultural Geography (see Jackson, 2000; Philo, 2000; Lees, 2002). It has also involved, on a slightly different track perhaps, inventive re-imaginings of ‘the materiality of matter’ that develop ‘a set of images depicting the stuff out of which all things are made and speculating about how that matter is arranged or is liable to arrangement’ (Bennett, 2001, p. 89). It is this broad and by no means singular context that this theme issue emerges from and aims to contribute to. It is based on a one-day conference that took place at the Department of Geography, UCL on the 3rd of September 2002 entitled ‘Material Geographies’. The day featured eighteen papers from across the social sciences. Published here are six that exemplify the range of topics that afford a renewed engagement with different forms of materialism: memorial tokens of a spatially and temporally distanced landscape, the bodies of those who listen and hear recorded music, eighteenth century political disputes over measurement, the regulation of complementary and alternative medicine, design and everyday consumer objects, and the networks of circulation that surround second hand clothing. The papers were deliberately chosen to exemplify the heterogeneity of work that goes under the broad heading of ‘material geographies’. Each of them is primarily, although not exclusively, concerned with the specific materialities of different objects. Re-thinking the object, and the connected concept of landscape, is now one of the key sites for an encounter with various materialist traditions (see Bingham, 1996; Cook and Crang, 1996;

Lawrence Greene - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Divya P Toliakelly - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the geographies of Cultural Geography iii material geographies vibrant matters and risking surface geographies
    Progress in Human Geography, 2013
    Co-Authors: Divya P Toliakelly
    Abstract:

    The doing of material geographies within the subdiscipline of Cultural Geography has been inspired by Jane Bennett’s (2010) account of Vibrant Matter. This review follows the various trajectories in recently published research in the field of material geographies and argues that scholars should aim to embrace the call of matter to think politically and beyond the surface. The review argues that there is a risk of doing ‘surface geographies’ where research reflects matters at play rather than evaluate the interconnectivity and co-constitution of materialities and their geographies.

  • the geographies of Cultural Geography i identities bodies and race
    Progress in Human Geography, 2010
    Co-Authors: Divya P Toliakelly
    Abstract:

    This report proposes that if Cultural Geography seeks to continue to be ‘world-class’ and ‘international’ in its outlook and in praxis it then needs to shift the interface between the academy and the ‘other’ both within it and without. There is, in particular, a need to make academic aspirations more international and to make practice within the academy more inclusive and politically orientated towards valuing scholarship and scholars at the edges and margins of, and ‘other’ to, the usual moral geographies of the discipline.

  • matter s in social and Cultural Geography
    Geoforum, 2004
    Co-Authors: Ben Anderson, Divya P Toliakelly
    Abstract:

    Social and Cultural Geography has recently been enlivened by a renewed encounter with the diverse problematics that surround matter and materialism. This has taken form in a number of high profile calls for the re-materialisation of social and Cultural Geography (see Jackson, 2000; Philo, 2000; Lees, 2002). It has also involved, on a slightly different track perhaps, inventive re-imaginings of ‘the materiality of matter’ that develop ‘a set of images depicting the stuff out of which all things are made and speculating about how that matter is arranged or is liable to arrangement’ (Bennett, 2001, p. 89). It is this broad and by no means singular context that this theme issue emerges from and aims to contribute to. It is based on a one-day conference that took place at the Department of Geography, UCL on the 3rd of September 2002 entitled ‘Material Geographies’. The day featured eighteen papers from across the social sciences. Published here are six that exemplify the range of topics that afford a renewed engagement with different forms of materialism: memorial tokens of a spatially and temporally distanced landscape, the bodies of those who listen and hear recorded music, eighteenth century political disputes over measurement, the regulation of complementary and alternative medicine, design and everyday consumer objects, and the networks of circulation that surround second hand clothing. The papers were deliberately chosen to exemplify the heterogeneity of work that goes under the broad heading of ‘material geographies’. Each of them is primarily, although not exclusively, concerned with the specific materialities of different objects. Re-thinking the object, and the connected concept of landscape, is now one of the key sites for an encounter with various materialist traditions (see Bingham, 1996; Cook and Crang, 1996;

Ceri Peach - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • social Geography new religions and ethnoburbs contrasts with Cultural Geography
    Progress in Human Geography, 2002
    Co-Authors: Ceri Peach
    Abstract:

    In this, my third and final review of social Geography, I want to return to the theme on which I started (Peach, 1999). There is a fundamental, but hopefully fruitful, tension between the ways in which social and Cultural Geography consider matters of common interest. One of the consequences of the fashion for postmodernism in human Geography is that Cultural Geography, with its emphases on hybridity, in-betweenness and flexibility, has claimed the epithet of ‘new’ while social Geography, with its engagement in the ‘real’ world, with numbers and census categories, seems to have become, by default, ‘the old’. Social Geography is criticized for its empiricism, its use of received categories and supposed political incorrectness. New Cultural Geography teaches that everything is nuanced, plastic and fluid, so that the analysis of censusgiven ethnic or racialized categories may be represented as static and empiricist. However, what social Geography does is crucial if we are not to be complacent in the face of injustices. Sue Smith has written eloquently on this dilemma in Ron Johnston’s The challenge for Geography (Smith, 1993a: 54; Johnston, 1993).

  • Social Geography: new religions and ethnoburbs – contrasts with Cultural Geography:
    Progress in Human Geography, 2002
    Co-Authors: Ceri Peach
    Abstract:

    In this, my third and final review of social Geography, I want to return to the theme on which I started (Peach, 1999). There is a fundamental, but hopefully fruitful, tension between the ways in which social and Cultural Geography consider matters of common interest. One of the consequences of the fashion for postmodernism in human Geography is that Cultural Geography, with its emphases on hybridity, in-betweenness and flexibility, has claimed the epithet of ‘new’ while social Geography, with its engagement in the ‘real’ world, with numbers and census categories, seems to have become, by default, ‘the old’. Social Geography is criticized for its empiricism, its use of received categories and supposed political incorrectness. New Cultural Geography teaches that everything is nuanced, plastic and fluid, so that the analysis of censusgiven ethnic or racialized categories may be represented as static and empiricist. However, what social Geography does is crucial if we are not to be complacent in the face of injustices. Sue Smith has written eloquently on this dilemma in Ron Johnston’s The challenge for Geography (Smith, 1993a: 54; Johnston, 1993).