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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.
Across and Beyond Social Difference
While the chapters in Part II of this book have presented a record of core work being completed in contemporary social geography, scholars have wished not only to highlight these differences, but also to look forward. Considering these differences, they have asked why, how and so what? They have also asked where next, and what changes are possible? These questions have encouraged geographers to respect – but look beyond – the specialist research details and conceptual debates surrounding specific differences like class, gender, ethnicity and sexuality. While not discarding them, many social geographers have turned to consider how social differences can be further understood (even challenged and reshaped). As a result, I have structured the third ...
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