Introducing Social Geographies

This major new text offers a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this important area of human geography. It presents a broad overview of the topic, clearly outlining the key theoretical and political positions, and making extensive use of examples to show how these frameworks can beused to analyze real social issues.

List of contributors

xi

Acknowledgements

xiii

Introduction

1

(10)

What is social geography?

1

(1)

A theoretical framework

2

(3)

Approaches to social geography and positionality

5

(3)

A guide to the book

8

(3)

Summary

9

(1)

Further reading

9

(2)

PART I Society, material life and geography

11

(84)

Work, class and social life

13

(31)

Jamie Gough

Introduction

13

(1)

The split between `economic' and `social' life

13

(4)

Employment relations and space

17

(3)

Conceptions of class

20

(2)

Geographical production processes and patterns

22

(3)

Reproduction work and its geographies

25

(3)

The nexus of production and reproduction with nations and localities

28

(6)

Actively moulding the nexus of production and reproduction

34

(2)

The present period

36

(8)

Summary

41

(1)

Further reading

42

(2)

The place of leisure

44

(25)

Graham Mowl

Introduction: why a geography of leisure?

44

(2)

Conceptualizing leisure and its relationship with work, reproduction and consumption

46

(6)

The experience of leisure and the importance of place

52

(1)

Leisure and identity of place

53

(3)

The social geography of leisure spaces

56

(13)

Summary

67

(1)

Further reading

67

(2)

Communities

69

(26)

Michael Barke

Robert MacFarlane

The varied meanings of community

69

(4)

A brief history of the concept of `community'

73

(6)

Can `community' be measured?

79

(2)

Types of community and their geographies

81

(11)

Conclusion

92

(3)

Summary

92

(1)

Further reading

93

(2)

PART II Power, identity and social geography

95

(92)

Race and ethnicity

97

(23)

Michael Barke

Duncan Fuller

Introduction

97

(1)

The formation of racism at the international scale

98

(2)

Segregation, and the ghetto as an ethnic stereotype

100

(6)

Critiques of segregation measurement and the plotting of ethnic ghettos

106

(1)

The changing geography of ethnic minorities in Britain and other northern European countries

107

(3)

Do ghettos exist in Britain and Europe?

110

(6)

Understanding the social geography of race and ethnicities: racism, exclusion and `whiteness'

116

(4)

Summary

118

(1)

Further reading

119

(1)

Geographies of gender and sexuality

120

(21)

Rachel Pain

Introduction

120

(1)

Defining terms

120

(4)

Radical perspectives on gender and sexuality

124

(3)

The household and home

127

(6)

The workplace

133

(3)

The neighbourhood and community

136

(5)

Summary

139

(1)

Further reading

140

(1)

Age, generation and lifecourse

141

(23)

Rachel Pain

Introduction

141

(7)

Geographies of age: from spatial patterns to spatial constructions

148

(3)

Space, identiy and age

151

(13)

Summary

162

(1)

Further reading

163

(1)

Geographies of disability

164

(23)

Graham Mowl

Duncan Fuller

Introduction

164

(2)

Defining disability

166

(3)

Disability and the rise of captialism (or capitalism and the rise of disability?)

169

(2)

The political reproduction of disability

171

(4)

Economic marginalization, and the economic reproduction of disability

175

(3)

Stares and stairs; the social reproduction of disability

178

(9)

Summary

185

(1)

Further reading

186

(1)

PART III Social geography and social problems

187

(90)

Society, nature and landscape

189

(19)

Robert MacFarlane

Introduction

189

(1)

Nature: what is it and what do we want it to be?

190

(5)

The development of landscape and `landscape'

195

(2)

Axes of division in access and control

197

(6)

Studies of rural Britain: image and reality

203

(5)

Summary

206

(1)

Further reading

207

(1)

Housing, space and society

208

(23)

Michael Barke

Introduction

208

(1)

Housing, ways of life and ideology

209

(6)

Changing tenure structure and its significance

215

(8)

The process of gentrification

223

(3)

Homelessness

226

(1)

Alternative housing strategies

227

(4)

Summary

230

(1)

Further reading

230

(1)

Crime, space and inequality

231

(23)

Rachel Pain

Introduction

231

(3)

`Crime areas' and geographies of inequality

234

(9)

Geographies of crime and fear

243

(2)

Systemic violence: space, power and fear

245

(9)

Summary

252

(1)

Further reading

253

(1)

Geographies of poverty

254

(23)

Duncan Fuller

Jamie Gough

Introduction

254

(2)

Questions of definition

256

(4)

Individual and community explanations of poverty

260

(1)

Employment, wages, and their geography

261

(3)

Social life, residential areas, and the creation of poverty

264

(6)

Poverty and social oppression

270

(3)

Political action of the poor and its geography

273

(2)

Conclusion

275

(2)

Summary

275

(1)

Further reading

276

(1)

References

277

(26)

Index

303

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