Imagining a “cultural turn” in transportation geography

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ID12145181
AuthorsKafui Attoh (0000-0003-3483-5156, Murphy Oil Corporation (United States), corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume31
Issue2
Pages141-151
Publication date2014-04-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-3631 • E-ISSN: 1940-6320
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08873631.2014.906847
OpenAlexW1976579497
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

This paper asks what a “cultural turn” in transportation geography might look like. In taking seriously Susan Hanson's claim that transportation geography has become a “moribund corner” of the discipline, this paper suggests a set of new avenues for inquiry. To do so, the paper draws on fieldwork I conducted in California's East Bay, as well as the story a fictitious transit system called the “B-Line.” Despite being a fiction, I argue that the B-Line offers an excellent entry point into mapping what a “cultural turn” in transportation geography might entail. Speaking to the larger theme of “doing cultural geography,” this essay argues that doing cultural geography not only means continuing to explore questions of representation, ideology, and cultural meaning, but it also means applying those questions to areas of study like transportation geography—areas where such questions remain largely unexplored

Critical geography · Cultural geography · Cultural turn · Economic geography · Epistemology · Geographer · Geography · Historical geography · Human geography · Ideology · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Strategic geography · Theme (computing · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Urban Planning and Governance

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