Geographies of Exclusion: Society and Difference in the West

by Sibley,David

• ISBN13: 9780415119252
• ISBN10: 0415119251
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-11-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

b /b b i Geographies of Exclusion /i /b identifies forms of social and spatial exclusion and subsequently examines the fate of knowledge of space and society which has been produced by members of excluded groups. Evaluating writing on urban society by women and black writers, David Sibley asks why such work is neglected by the academic establishment, suggesting that both the practices which result in the exclusion of minorities and those which result in the exclusion of knowledge have important implications for theory and method in human geography. br br Drawing on a range of ideas from social anthropology, feminist theory, sociology, human geography and psychoanalysis, this book presents a fresh approach to geographical theory, highlighting the tendency of powerful groups to "purify" space and to view minorites as defiled and polluting, and exploring the nature of "difference" and the production of knowledge.

Author Biography

David Sibley teaches geography at the University of Hull.

Table of Contents

Preface

Feelings about difference

Images of difference

Border Crossings

Mapping the pure and defiled

Bounding space: purification and control

Spaces of exclusion: home, locality, nation

The exclusion of knowledge

W.E.B. Dubois: a black perspective on social space

Radical women, men of science and urban society

Conclusion

Bibliography

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