Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. Theory of space: Geography, semiotics, and Marxism -- Chapter 1. Objectivism and subjectivism in spatial studies -- Chapter 2. Society, space, and meaning -- Chapter 3. A materialist social semiotics of space -- Part II. Society, space, and meaning -- Chapter 4. Land and people -- Chapter 5. Corpus, sample, and sociology -- Part III. The social construction and evaluation of space -- Chapter 6. The conceptual construction of regional space -- Chapter 7. Space and the fluctuation of sentiment -- Chapter 8. A multitude of spaces within the same space -- Part IV. Talking about space -- Chapter 9. Discourse analysis and the region -- Chapter 10. Ideological models of the region -- Part V. Imagining space -- Chapter 11. Mental maps revisited -- Chapter 12. Regional images -- Chapter 13. Geographical accuracy -- Part VI. Conclusion: The social semiotics of space -- Chapter 14. Society and spatial semiosis -- Notes -- References -- Index