1st Edition

Social Geographies Space and Society

By Gill Valentine Copyright 2001
416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1. Space and society
2. The body3. The home4. Community5. Institutions6. The Street7. The city8. The rural9. The nation10. Appendix A: A guide to doing a project or dissertation11. Appendix B: Glossary

Biography

Gill Valentine