Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi Part I Framing Cultural Geography 1 1 What Is Geography? 3 Thinking Like Geographers 3 Thinking Geographically: Key Concepts 6 Place 6 Space 9 Scale 11 Landscape 13 Thinking Critically? 16 Notes 17 2 What Is Cultural Geography? 19 Introduction 19 What Is Culture? 19 What Is Cultural Geography? 25 Traditional Cultural Geography 26 New Cultural Geography 28 More-Than-Representational Cultural Geography 31 Fighting Academics 32 Conclusion, or Beginning? 33 Notes 35 3 Identity 37 Introduction 37 Thinking About Identity 37 How to Think About Identity 40 Identity, Part 2: From Chinatown to Xuxa: Place, Race, and Migration 44 Creating Vancouver''s Chinatown 44 Race and Gender in Motion: Xuxa Comes to America 48 Conclusion 50 Notes 51 4 History and Memory 53 Introduction 53 Memory-Work 54 Heritage 56 (Post)colonializing Geography 58 Spatial Politics of Memory in Cape Verde: Memory, Landscape, and Heritage in Cape Verde 62 Conclusion 65 Notes 67 5 Borders 68 Introduction 68 Understanding Borders 69 Power of the State 72 A Borderless World or a World of Borders: Cultural Differences, Cultural Transformations 76 Conclusion 81 Notes 83 Part II Making Cultural Geographies 85 6 Cultural Geographies of Dwelling 87 Introduction 87 Cultural Geographies of Home 88 Domestic Architecture 91 Home Life 101 Material Artifacts: Dwelling with Technology 102 Conclusion 105 Notes 106 7 Moving 107 Introduction 107 Mobility 108 Cultural Geographies of Migration 109 Multiculturalism 116 Migration, National Identity, and Cultural Differences 118 The Middle East and Immigration 120 Conclusion 121 Notes 122 8 Working 124 Introduction 124 What and Where Is Work? 124 Placing Work 128 Work That Doesn''t Count 130 Social Liberalism and Keynesianism 132 Care Work and Gender in Canada 134 Ontario''s Home Health Care: Privatizing Care in the Home 135 Canada''s Live-In Caregiver Program 136 Conclusion 138 Notes 139 9 Playing 141 Introduction 141 Cultural Geographies of Tourism: Play, Work, Politics 143 From Travels to Tourism 143 Tensions of Travel: How Not to Be a Tourist 146 Contemporary Tourism 148 Is Tourism Production or Consumption? Play or Work? 151 Working and Living in Tourism 152 Conclusion 153 Notes 154 Part III Studying Cultural Geographies 155 10 Making Sense of the World: (More Than?) Representation? 157 Introduction 157 The Work of Representation 158 Maps, Representation, and Power 160 More Than Words? More Than Representation? 163 "The puzzling ''matter'' of the body" 168 Notes 172 11 Things 174 Introduction 174 Material Cultures, Materialities 175 Do Things Really Matter? 179 Mobile Phones in Mobile Lives 182 Mobile Lives in Tanzania 184 Follow That Phone! 185 So.? 187 Notes 188 12 Digital Geographies 189 Introduction 189 Digital Lives: Technological and Social Worlds 190 Does Distance Still Matter? 191 Digital and Real Communities 192 Who Are We Online? 195 Material Geographies of Digital Worlds 198 Digital Geographies and Digital Divides 198 Digital Infrastructures 201 Conclusion 203 Notes 204 13 Social Movements: How to Be Heard in a Fractured World? 205 Introduction 205 Why, What, and How to Resist? 206 Where to Resist? 208 Mexico, 1968: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 210 Ya basta! The Zapatistas 214 #OccupyEverywhere 217 Conclusion 219 Notes 220 14 Assemblages: Putting Cultural Geography Back Together Again? 221 From Binaries . 223 . to Cyborgs 225 (Re)Assembling Cultural Geography? 227 Critiquing Assemblages 229 Conclusion 231 Notes 232 15 Futures 233 Algorithmic Assemblages 234 Vignette 1: Algorithmic Communities 235 Vignette 2: Algorithmic Visions/Dreams? 238 Vignette 3: Algorithms and Cultural Production 240 So, what.? 243 Notes 244 Works Cited 246 Index 000.