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How do we describe ourselves? Where have we, do we, will we, live our lives?Why are the differences between people a source of tension? How can social change occur?Social geography can assist in addressing these questions. It provides ways of understanding and living in our contemporary world.Providing students with the resources to understand both the theoretical and empirical approaches social geographers take when investigating social difference, this text outlines key theoretical approaches and traces the core geographies of difference: class, gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality. It concludes by showing how geographers work across these ideas of difference to understand questions of identity, power and action.Using illustrative examples from around the world, Social Geographies includes:- Individual chapters on the main theoretical approaches to difference- Individual chapters on the key concepts of identity, power and action- Reviews of the core literature, with suggestions for further reading- Biographies of key contemporary social geographers- Glossary of key termsFor students beginning human geography courses, or in social geography modules, this book is the essential primer.
Introductions and Negotiations
Social geography is a body of knowledge and a set of practices by which scholars look at, and seek to understand, the social world. It is a strikingly diverse subdiscipline of human geography that has many overlapping interests with other forms of geography rather than any fixed or strict boundaries. Its diversity occurs since the topics and approaches undertaken have varied over time and according to individual geographers' interests and politics. Consequently, Introducing Social Geographies: From Difference to Action presents a cameo of that diversity and Part I opens with two chapters that introduce and contextualize the sub-discipline.
Chapter 1 starts by sketching out the types of social relations and places that fascinate social geographers before explaining that (as with other ...
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