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Social Geographies

Social Geographies

Space and Society

Gill Valentine

May 2001, Paperback, 416 pages
ISBN13: 9780582357778
ISBN10: 0582357772
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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. In doing so the intention is to make complex theoretical debates about space more accessible to students and encourage them to look at their own environments in new ways.

1. Space and society
2. The body3. The home4. Community5. Institutions6. The Street7. The city8. The rural9. The nation10. Appendix A: A guide to doing a project or dissertation11. Appendix B: Glossary

  • Provides a detailed review of the history of social geography
  • Gives a diagrammatic model of the relationships between identity, social processes and spatial relationships which will be built up as the book progresses, forming a link between the chapters and themes presented and allowing the reader to locate issues and linkages in ways which suit their particular needs
  • Each theme is presented by means of straightforward descriptive text, supported by illustrative examples and photographs drawn from popular sources, such as newspaper accounts, films or contemporary fiction
  • Full range of global case studies
  • Boxed quotations from social geographical journals or classic texts will be included to direct the reader towards the source of ideas and on to further study
  • The students will be able to take an active role in the development of the themes by means of tasks and exercises
  • Further reading, Web links, glossary, pathway pointers and a varied range of suitable illustrations

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