Social Geography A Critical Introduction

by Del Casino, Vincent J.

• ISBN13: 9781405155007
• ISBN10: 1405155000
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Introducing the debates that inform current social geographic research and theory and interrogating the historical development of social geography, Social Geography: A Critical Introduction explores how urban and rural spaces are organized in ways that construct and maintain social inequality. Puts into context the assumptions of various strains of social geographic thought as they have developed historically Assists students in addressing key social geographic questions and methodologies Provides a showcase for cutting edge work in the field Is written in an accessible and lively style, setting out a wide breadth of social geographic research

Author Biography

Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach. He is Book Review Editor of the journal Social and Cultural Geography and has published numerous articles and co-edited the book Mapping Tourism (with Stephen Hanna) (2003).

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Boxes

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Cover Image

Introduction

Historicizing Social Geography: From Theory to Methodology

Social Geography? What's That?

Social Geography in Three Acts and an Epilogue

Thinking Methodologically

Social Geographies across the Life Course

Social Geography and the Geographies of Health

Communities and Organizations

Social Activism/Social Movements/Social Justice

Social Geographies through the Life Course

On the Geographies of Children and Young People

Social Geographies of the "Mid-Life"?

Ageing and the "New" Social Geographies of Older People

Conclusions

Epilogue v. 2.0

Rethinking the Social Geographies of Difference and Inequality

References

Index

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