This volume provides concise and accessible guidance on how to conduct qualitative
research in human geography. It gives particular emphasis to examples drawn from …

Over the past two decades, geographers have probed the intersection of collective memory
and urban space. Their sustained interest in the subject reflects an understanding of the …

Geographies of Media and Communication From the invention of the telegraph to the
emergence of the Internet, communications technologies have transformed the ways that …

Although the critical turn in place name study recognizes the central and contested place
that toponyms hold in people's lives and identity struggles, little work has explicitly analyzed …

This paper aims at delineating the basic principles for a semiotic approach to monuments
and memorials. Monuments are built forms erected to confer dominant meanings on space …

We transmit images of space and place through communication, so space and place are
part of the 'content'of media. In addition, every communication follows a path from sender (s) …

This volume analyses the interpretation of the built environment by connecting analytical
frames developed in the fields of semiotics and geography. It focuses on specific …

Memory-work The array of creative sociopolitical processes (and the labor required to carry
them out) that build the capacity to materialize memory; often in the context of opening up …

This essay analyzes the Homestead National Monument of America in Beatrice, Nebraska,
as a material and symbolic rhetoric organized by the political ideograph. After establishing …

Monuments commemorating battle sites and heroic figures are common beacons of national
identity in publicly articulated memory. They link historic events of significance to present …