Social Geographies: Space and Society

Social Geographies: Space and Society
ISBN-10
1317879376
ISBN-13
9781317879374
Category
Science
Pages
416
Language
English
Published
2014-06-06
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Gill Valentine

Description

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.

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