Cultural Geography

Cultural geography is a subfield of human geography [blank] explores the patterns and interactions of human culture in relation to the natural environment and the human organization of space. It encompasses a wide range of topics, [blank] as identity, ideology, power, meaning, values, colonialism, post-colonialism, postmodernism, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, media, language, and more. Cultural geography also draws on various theoretical traditions, such as Marxism, feminism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and non-representational theory. Cultural geography is not a unified or fixed discipline, but rather a living tradition of disagreements, passions, commitments, and enthusiasms. It [blank] be seen as a style of thought that seeks to expand and illuminate diverse geographies, both material and non-material, human and non-human, representational and more-than-representational. Some examples of cultural geography include the diffusion [blank] religions and the diffusion of culture via colonialism and imperialism.