Social Geographies

How do we describe ourselves? Where have we, do we, will we, live our lives? Why are the differences between people a source of tension? How can social change occur? Social geography can assist in addressing these questions. It provides ways of understanding and living in our contemporary world. Providing students with the resources to understand both the theoretical and empirical approaches social geographers take when investigating social difference, this text outlines key theoretical approaches and traces the core geographies of difference: class, gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. It concludes by showing how geographers work across these ideas of difference to understand questions of identity, power and action. Using illustrative examples from around the world, "Social Geographies" includes: individual chapters on the main theoretical approaches to difference; and, individual chapters on the key concepts of identity, power and action. It reviews of the core literature, with suggestions for further reading. It contains biographies of key contemporary social geographers. It features a glossary of key terms. For students beginning human geography courses, or in social geography modules, this book is the essential primer.

ISBN 0761968946   Pages 306 ISBN13 9780761968948 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd   Weight (grammes) 491 Imprint SAGE Publications Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 244 Publication date 16 Dec 2003   Width (mm) 170 Library of Congress 2003103975   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY 304.2   Academic level General, Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education DEWEY edition DC22

		List of Boxes
		List of Figures
		List of Tables
		Preface
		Acknowledgements
Pt. I		Introductions and Negotiations		1
1		Contemporary Social Geographies: Perspectives on Difference, Identity, Power and Action		3
2		Contemporary Social Geographies: Negotiating Science, Theories and Positions		11
Pt. II		Categories of Social Difference		37
3		Class		39
4		Gender		64
5		Race and Ethnicity		89
6		Sexuality		111
Pt. III		Across and Beyond Social Difference		135
7		Identity		137
8		Power		159
9		Social Action		181
Pt. IV		Conclusions and Outlooks		207
10		Conclusions and Future Directions		209
Pt. V		Individual Social Geographies		219
		Andrew Herod: Questions of class and geographies of labour		220
		Jo Little: From 'adding women' to reading the 'practice and performance' of gender		223
		Kay Anderson: Disturbing 'race' - its genealogies and power		226
		Larry Knopp: From 'mainstream radicalism' to explicit challenges and contradictions in (sexualized) geography products and practice		229
		Karen M. Morin: Developing poststructural geographies of subjectivity and identity		231
		Michael Woods: Developing an eclectic critical engagement with theories of power		233
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