Culture, Geography, and the Arts of Government

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ID4476074
AutoresClive Barnett (0000-0002-1291-1421, University of Reading, autor correspondente)
Ano2001
Volume19
Fascículo1
Páginas7-24
Data de publicação2001-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d236
OpenAlexW2093722142
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas43
Referências citadas82

In this paper I endeavor to prise open the theoretical closure of the conceptualization of culture in contemporary human geography. Foucault's later work on government provides the basis for a useable definition of culture as an object of analysis which avoids problems inherent in abstract, generalizing, and expansive notions of culture. The emergence of this Foucauldian approach in cultural studies is discussed, and the distinctive conceptualization of the relations between culture and power that it implies are elaborated. This reconceptualization informs a critical project of tracking the institutional formation of the cultural and the deployment of distinctively cultural forms of regulation into the fabric of modern social life. It is argued that the culture-and-government approach needs to be supplemented by a more sustained consideration of the spatiality and scale of power-relations. It is also suggested that this approach might throw into new perspective the dynamic behind geography's own cultural turn

Closure (psychology · Conceptualization · Cultural geography · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Expansive · Government (linguistics · Human geography · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Urban Planning and Governance