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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.
Categories of Social Difference
In seeking to investigate and form understandings of social life and the environments in which it occurs, social geographies have commonly highlighted the notion of social difference. At different times, and in different ways, social difference has been conceptualized and investigated in terms of categories, relations and spatial patterns or struggles. Nevertheless, the most frequently studied categories of social difference have been class, gender, ethnicity and sexuality. This part of the book takes these four foci as a structure for exploring the social and spatial patterns and interlinkages that occur at a number of scales. Chapters 3 – 6 concentrate on an individual category but reflect many of the overlapping theoretical perspectives and approaches introduced in Chapter 2. ...
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