Social & Cultural Geography

Geography, in simplest terms, is about locations, places, how people and their cultures interact with their environments, how goods, services and ideas move across space, and how dividing the world into regions can help us understand it all. Social and cultural geography is about how people, as individuals and as members of groups, create places and landscapes for their daily lives; how people understand place, regions, and spatial relationships; how distance and connectivity impact human lives and relationships: how cultural landscapes are cumulative through time; how places and landscapes are part of lager regional and global systems, and how human societies and nature interact to create the diversity of the humanized world. The purpose of this book is to provide an introductory framework for a global understanding of social and cultural geography. It deals with the geography of the world’s people, their places, their regions, and how people and societies connect with each other in social, religious, economic, and political systems that both build communities and span the world. It is local, regional, and global in spatial perspective and is simultaneously historical, contemporary, and futuristic. The book will enable the readers to have a basic understanding of cultural geography both as an academic enterprise and as a way to understand the world around us. It will also enable them place the key elements of the world’s human places and landscapes in their geographic and social scientific contexts.