Introducing Social Geographies

by Pain, Rachel; Burke, Michael; Fuller, Duncan; Gough, Jamie; Macfarlane, Robert; Mowl, Graham

• ISBN13: 9780340720059
• ISBN10: 0340720050
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-08
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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 spirit 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)
Activity 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 Pan
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, identity 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 capitalism (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 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