ISBN:
9780582357778
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (417 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Geographies : Space and Society
DDC:
304.2/3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and increasingly now sexuality and disability, into separate chapters. This has the effect, firstly, of making social relations rather than space (the raison d'etre of human geography) the focus of undergraduate books; secondly of ignoring the way that social relations are negotiated and contested in different space. Rather than reproducing this conventional social geography format the aim of this proposed text is to make space the focus of analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of plates; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Space and society; 1.1 About this book; 1.2 Space and society; 1.3 Boundaries and connections; 1.4 Using this book; Chapter 2 The body; 2.1 The body; 2.2 What is the body?; 2.3 The body as a space; 2.4 The body as a project; 2.5 Bodies taking up space; 2.6 Bodies in space; 2.7 The body and time; 2.8 Future bodies?; Exercises; Essay titles; Chapter 3 The home; 3.1 The home; 3.2 Housing design; 3.3 The meanings of home; 3.4 Experiences of home
Description / Table of Contents:
3.5 The moral economy of the household3.6 Home rules: negotiating space and time; 3.7 Homelessness; Exercises; Essay titles; Chapter 4 Community; 4.1 Community; 4.2 'Natural communities'; 4.3 Neighbourhood community; 4.4 A meaningless concept?; 4.5 Imagined community; 4.6 Community politics; 4.7 Community: a desirable ideal?; Exercises; Essay titles; Chapter 5 Institutions; 5.1 Institutions; 5.2 Schools; 5.3 The workplace; 5.4 The prison; 5.5 The asylum; Exercises; Essay titles; Chapter 6 The street; 6.1 The street; 6.2 The democratic street?; 6.3 Streets of fear
Description / Table of Contents:
6.4 The moral order of the suburban streets6.5 Dangerous 'others'; 6.6 The policing of the street; 6.7 The contested street: the end of 'public' space?; Exercises; Essay titles; Chapter 7 The city; 7.1 The city; 7.2 The heterogeneous city; 7.3 The flâneur; 7.4 Landscapes of consumption; 7.5 Selling the city; 7.6 Nature in the city; 7.7 Virtual cities; Exercises; Essay titles; Chapter 8 The rural; 8.1 The rural; 8.2 Rural society: community; 8.3 Meanings and commodification of the landscape; 8.4 'Other' rurals; 8.5 Rural space: a utopian environment; 8.6 Society's playground
Description / Table of Contents:
8.7 The rural as a space of production8.8 Rural conflicts: nature under threat?; Exercises; Essay titles; Chapter 9 The nation; 9.1 The nation; 9.2 The nation and national identities; 9.3 Nationalism; 9.4 Citizenship; 9.5 Globalization; 9.6 Global citizenship; Exercises; Essay titles; Appendix A: A guide to doing a project or dissertation; 1. Choosing a topic; 2. Preliminary research; 3. Research design; 4. Writing; Appendix B: Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
