Cover -- MAPS OF MEANING -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: maps of meaning -- An introduction to cultural studies -- Cultural politics and the politics of culture -- Notes -- 1 The heritage of cultural geography -- The 'Berkeley School' and its legacy -- The cultural landscape -- Culture history and human agency -- Cultural anthropology: Boas, Lowie, and Kroeber -- The super-organic approach to culture -- Cultural geography and the new humanism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Problems and alternatives -- The study of culture and 19th-century anthropology -- The problem of culturalism -- Culturalism and the city -- Culturalism and poverty -- Cultural materialism -- Culture and society -- A materialist cultural geography? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Culture and ideology -- The concept of ideology -- Hegemony and power -- Culture and capital in urban change -- Rituals of resistance -- Folk devils and moral panics -- Territorial struggles -- Cheerleaders and ombudsmen? -- Notes -- 4 Popular culture and the politics of class -- The meaning of 'popular culture' -- Popular culture in pre-industrial Britain -- Fun without vulgarity: the battle of the music halls -- Policing the public -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Gender and sexuality -- Feminist theory and cultural geography -- The female frontier in America -- Women's work? -- The landscape of female prostitution -- The spatial basis of gay identity -- Gay politics and the restructuring of San Francisco -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Languages of racism -- The social construction of 'race' -- The roots of British racism -- Representing 'race' -- Reporting the riots -- The myth of 'Asian' ethnicity -- Imagining the Orient -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7 The politics of language -- Cultural geography and linguistic theory.

The problematic character of language -- Linguistic variation: dialects, pidgins, and Creoles -- Linguistic communities -- The discourse of 'discovery' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 An agenda for cultural geography -- Culture and interpretation -- Sheep raids and revolutions: culture, politics, and society -- Poetics and politics: the dilemmas of post-modernism -- Cultures and landscapes -- Culture… -- …and geography -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.