Chapter 5: Cultural Geographies Flashcards
actor-network theory
views the world as composed of “heterogeneous things,” including humans and nonhumans and objects.
affect
emotions that are embodied reactions to the social and physical environment
cultural complex
The combination of traits characteristic of a particular group
cultural geography
focuses on the way space, place, and landscape shape culture at the same time that culture shapes space, place, and landscape. As such, cultural geography demarcates two important and interrelated parts
cultural landscape
a characteristic and tangible out- come of the complex interactions between a
human group—with its own practices, preferences, values, and aspirations—and its natural environment
cultural nationalism
the belief that a nation shares a common culture—geographers have increasingly begun to ask questions about other forms of identity.
cultural region
is an area where certain cultural practices, beliefs, or values are more or less practiced by the majority of the inhabitants.
cultural system
includes traits, territorial affiliation, and shared history, as well as other, more complex elements, such as language and religion
cultural trait
is a single aspect of the complex of routine practices that
constitute a particular cultural group.
culture
is a shared set of meanings that is lived through the material and symbolic practices of everyday life.
disability
is a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities
ethnicity
is a socially created system of rules about who belongs to a particular group based upon actual or perceived commonalities, such as language or religion
folk culture
is seen by specialists as the traditional practices of small groups, especially rural people with a simple lifestyle (compared with modern, urban people), such as the Amish in Pennsylvania or the Roma (also known as Gypsies or Travelers) in Europe, who are seen as homogeneous in their belief systems and practices.
gender
a term that is meant to differentiate biology from the social and cultural distinction between the sexes.
genre de vie
a key concept in Vidal de la Blache’s approach to cultural geography in France, referred to a functionally organized way of life characteristic of a particular culture group.
historical geography
is the geography of the past.
intersectionality
is a recognition of the ways that different forms or systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination overlap.
kinship
normally thought of as a relationship based on blood, marriage, or adoption. This definition needs to be expanded, however, to include a shared notion of relationship among members of a group
materialism
emphasizes that the material world—its objects and nonhuman entities—is at least partly separate from humans and possesses the power to affect humans.
non-representational theory
understands human life as a process that is always unfolding, always becoming something different, even if only slightly so.
popular culture
is viewed by some cultural geographers as the practices and meaning systems produced by large groups of people whose norms and tastes are often heterogeneous and change frequently, often in response to commercial products. Hip-hop would be seen by these theorists as an example of popular culture.
race
a problematic classification of human beings based on skin color and other physical characteristics.
racialization
is the practice of creating unequal castes based on the norm of whiteness.
rite of passage
These are acts, customs, practices, or procedures that recognize key transitions in human life—birth, menstruation, and other markers of adulthood, such as sexual awakening and marriage
sex
is the biological and physiological characteristics that differentiate males and females at birth, based on bodily characteristics such as anatomy, chromosomes, and hormones.
transgender
refers to a person whose self-identity does not conform to conventional notions of the male or female gender
tribe
is a form of social identity created by groups who share a set of ideas about collective loyalty and political action
white privilege
advantages that accrue to white people beyond what is commonly experienced by people of color
white supremacy
the belief that white people are superior to other races.
world music
the musical genre defined largely by the surge of non–English-language recordings released in the United Kingdom and the United States during the 1980s
