The Power of Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

How Territory Shapes Social Life
Herausgeber: Dear, Michael; Wolch, Jennifer

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction - gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of territory and reproduction and concrete empirical analyses of the evolution of social practices in particular places. At the core of the book's contribution is the concept of society as a 'time-space' fabric, upon which are engraved the processes of political, economic and socio-cultural life. A second distinctive feature of the book is its substantive focus on the relation between territory and social practice. Thirdly, it represents a significant step in the redefinition of the research agenda in human geography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 629g
• ISBN-13: 9781138989689
• ISBN-10: 1138989681
• Artikelnr.: 44313724

Autorenporträt

Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction and Overview 1. How Territory Shapes Social Life Part
2: Industralism, the State and Civil Society 2. The Geographical
Foundations and Social Regulation of Flexible Production Complexes 3.
Collective Consumption 4. The Politics of Turf and the Question of Class
Part 3: Industrial Society 5. Class and Gender Relations in the Local Labor
Market and the Local State 6. A Feminist Perspective of Employment
Restructuring and Gentrification: the case of Montréal 7. The Mobility of
Capital and the Immobility of Female Labor: Responses to Economic
Restructuring Part 4: The State 8. Interpretive Practices, the State and
the Locale 9. The Shadow State: Transformations in the Voluntary Sector 10.
Social Reproduction and Housing Alternatives: Cooperative Housing in
Post-War Canada 11. Privatization and Dependencey on the Local Welfare
State 12. 'Enough to Drive one Mad': the Organization of Space in 19th
century lunatic asylums Part 5: Civil Society 13. Incorporation Theory and
the Reproduction of Community Fabric 14. Community Exclusion of the
Mentally Ill 15. Mirrors of Power: Reflective Professionals in the
Neighbourhood 16. The Grassroots in Action: Gays and Seniors Capture the
Local State in West Hollywood, California 17. Disability and the
Reproduction of Bodily Images: the Dynamics of Human Appearances