<Li> Some more recent developments in political geography </Li> <P> Some within the new cultural geography have turned their attention to critiquing some of its ideas, seeing its views on identity and space as static . It has followed the critiques of Foucault made by other' poststructuralist' theorists such as Michel de Certeau and Gilles Deleuze . In this area, non-representational geography and population mobility research have dominated . Others have attempted to incorporate these and other critiques back into the new cultural geography . </P> <P> Groups within the geography community have differing views on the role of culture and how to analyze it in the context of geography . It is commonly thought that physical geography simply dictates aspects of culture such as shelter, clothing and cuisine . However, systematic development of this idea is generally discredited as environmental determinism . Geographers are now more likely to understand culture as a set of symbolic resources that help people make sense of the world around them, as well as a manifestation of the power relations between various groups and the structure through which social change is constrained and enabled . There are many ways to look at what culture means in light of various geographical insights, but in general geographers study how cultural processes involve spatial patterns and processes while requiring the existence and maintenance of particular kinds of places . </P> <P> Academic peer reviewed journals which are primarily focused on cultural geography or which contain articles that contribute to the area . </P>

Which are cultural factors that geographers focus on in their study of human geography