新文化地理探询文化地理现象的多重意义,侧重于理论和哲学思辨.随着中国社会经济的快速发展,与新文化地理相关的问题不断涌现.新文化地理理论往往抽象晦涩,使得中国文化地理研究和教学中新文化地理内容偏少,因而新文化地理的通俗化变得尤为重要.该文紧扣文化的核心词汇价值观,将之与空间、景观、地方、环境等地理概念紧密联系,通过典型案例剖析社会问题,引导研究者逐渐入门并产生兴趣.
New cultural geography focuses on the relations between the space of geography and the social,political and economic phenomena,and inquires their nultiple meanings.Compared to the West,the universities teaching new cultural geography in China are not practiced.Although the new cultural geography is popular in Anglo-American academia,the traditional cultural geographies are emphasized in China.The new cultural geography is neglected by most of scholars too.However,there are more and more practical problems and examples in nowadays China which are related to new cultural geography,such as social space,gender,power and space.So it should be taught more knowledge and thought on new cultural geography in China in the future.In the process of teaching and studying,there are four key points.Firstly,the scholars should grasp the concept of values because it is the core of culture.Secondly,the researchers should link the values to the space,landscape,place,environment and other geographical concepts.Thirdly.the method of typical cases analysis can inspire researchers' interests.Finally,the scholars will gradually master the methods of analyzing cases by themselves own practices.