(For additional suggested readings, see the Contemporary Human Geography LaunchPad: http://www.macmillanhighered.com/launchpad/DomoshCHG1e.)

Aitken, Stuart. 2001. Geographies of Young People: The Morally Contested Spaces of Identity. London and New York: Routledge. The author presents youth as a fundamental category of cultural difference rather than a developmental stage toward adulthood in this study of the interaction of space, place, and childhood identity.

Burgess, Jacquelin A., and John R. Gold (eds.). 1985. Geography, the Media, and Popular Culture. New York: St. Martin’s Press. The geography of popular culture is linked in diverse ways to the communications media, and this collection of essays explores facets of that relationship.

Harris, Dianne. 2013. Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. The author shows how, following the Second World War, marketing and popular media portrayed the new suburban developments as exclusively White. The study demonstrates that racial segregation and racial identities were constructed and reinforced through inequalities in the housing market.

Jackson, Peter, and Jan Penrose (eds.). 1993. Constructions of Race, Place, and Nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. An edited collection that examines the way in which the ideas of racial and national identity vary from place to place; rich in empirical research.

Johnston, Lynda, and Robyn Longhurst. 2010. Space, Place, and Sex: Geographies of Sexualities. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield. Employing feminist and queer theories, the authors examine the geography of sex and sexuality from the scale of the body to the globe. They highlight throughout the interactive effects between sexuality and place.

Jordan, Terry G., Jon T. Kilpinen, and Charles F. Gritzner. 1997. The Mountain West: Interpreting the Folk Landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Reading the folk landscapes of the American West, three geographers reach conclusions about the regional culture and how it evolved.

Price, Patricia. 2004. Dry Place: Landscapes of Belonging and Exclusion. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Price explores the narratives that have sought to establish claims to the dry lands along the U.S.-Mexico border, demonstrating how stories can become vehicles for reshaping places and cultural identities.

Roberts, Les (ed.). 2012. Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance. New York: Palgrave. The individual chapter authors explore ways to map a range of cultural expression such as music, collective memories, and political identity.

Warf, Barney (ed.). 2012. Encounters and Engagements between Economic and Cultural Geography. New York: Springer. A diverse set of chapters based on up-to-date literature reviews on the themes of the “cultural turn” in economic geography and the “rematerialization” of cultural geography.

Zelinsky, Wilbur. 2011 Not Yet a Placeless Land: Tracking an Evolving American Geography. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. Zelinsky brings a lifetime’s worth of knowledge of North American cultural geography to bear on the question of whether the country’s land and citizens are homogenizing. To his own observations he adds a survey of literature on a range of American landscapes, regions, and cities. Arguing there are multiple countervailing forces at work, he concludes that standardization is occurring simultaneously with diversification.