Territories
- Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places
- Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space
- Hugh Raffles, In Amazonia: A Natural History
- Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson, eds., Culture, Power, Place [intro and first chapter, plus Malkii’s chapter]
- Peter Sahlins, Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989)
- Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer, The Great Arch
- Arturo Escobar, “Culture Sits in Places,” Political Geography 20
- Michael Watts, “Collective Wish Images: Geographical Imaginaries and the Crisis of Development,” in J. Allen and D. Massey, eds., Human Geography Today
- Noel Castree, “Differential Geographies: Place, Indigenous Rights and ‘Local’ Resources,” Political Geography 23
- Joel Wainwright and Joe Bryan, “Cartography, territory, property: postcolonial reflections on indigenous counter-mapping in Nicaragua and Belize,” Cultural Geographies 16: 2 (April 2009)
Theoretical geographies
- Doreen Massey, For Space
- Yi-Fu Tuan, Space and Place
- Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space
- Neil Smith, Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space
- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish
- Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
- James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State
- James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed
- Raymond Williams, The Country and the City
- Patrick Wolfe, “History and Imperialism: A Century of Theory, from Marx to Postcolonialism,” American Historical Review 102: 2 (April 1997), 388-420
- Edward Said, Orientalism
- Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism
- Thomas Richards, The Imperial Archive
- Epeli Hau’ofa, “Our sea of islands”
- Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff, “Theory from the South: Or, how Euro-America is evolving toward Africa,” Anthropological Forum 22:2 (July 2012)
- Adam Smith. The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities. Introduction and Ch. 1
- Christian Jacob, The Sovereign Map: Theoretical Approaches in Cartography throughout History
- Geoff King, Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies
- Denis Cosgrove: Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining, and Representing the World
- Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Exploration, travel, survey
- Greg Dening, Islands and Beaches
- Paul Carter, The Road to Botany Bay
- Barbara Belyea, “Inland Journeys, Native Maps” Cartographica 1996
- D. Graham Burnett, Masters of All They Surveyed
- Brian Friel, Translations
- Mary Louise Pratt, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation
- Denis Cosgrove, “Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea”
- Vitoria di Palma, Wasteland: A History
- Ian Ousby, The Englishman’s England
Maps
- Sumathi Ramaswamy, “Maps and Mother Goddesses in Modern India,” Imago Mundi 53 (2001), 97-114
- Jeremy Black, Maps and History
- Laura Hostetler, “Contending Cartographic Claims? The Qing Empire in Manchu, Chinese and European Maps,” in James R. Akerman, ed., The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 93-132
- Neil Safier, “The Confines of the Colony: Boundaries, Ethnographic Landscapes, and Imperial Cartography in Iberoamerica,” in Akerman, The Imperial Map, 133-184
- Barbara Mundy, The Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones Geográficas
- Daniel Smail, Imaginary Cartographies
- J.B. Harley, “Deconstructing the Map”
- Raymond Craib, Cartographic Mexico
- Matthew Edney, Mapping an Empire
- Denis Wood, The Power of Maps
- Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped
- Nancy Peluso, “Whose woods are these?” Antipode
- Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory
- Hugh Brody, Maps and Dreams
- Jerry Brotton, Trading Terrritories: Mapping the Early Modern World
- Batchelor, Robert, London: The Selden Map and the Making of a Global City, 1549-1689
