Social Geography A Reader
by Hamnett, ChrisFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-09-15
Publisher(s): Hodder Education Publishers
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Summary
The past two decades have seen social geography in the throes of a major theoretical and methodological flux. Its traditional descriptive identity has been challenged by the flurry of work on Marxism, feminism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, and social and cultural theory more generally. The purpose of this Reader is to capture some of these major intellectual shifts of the last twenty years and to examine the nature of contemporary social geography. Chris Hamnett's rich selection of articles covers a wide range of issues and highlights the variety of methods and theoretical approaches.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| From The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project | p. 26 |
| Absolute Rent and the Structuring of Space by Governmental and Financial Institutions | p. 34 |
| From Social Geography and the Taken-for-Granted World | p. 51 |
| From Locality and Social Representation: Space, Discourse and Alternative Definitions of the Rural | p. 68 |
| "Race" and Sexuality: Challenging the Patriarchal Structuring of Urban Social Space | p. 102 |
| From Gender, Class, and Space | p. 123 |
| From Women and Children Last: The Poverty and Marginalization of One-parent Families | p. 144 |
| From Livelihoods under Stress: A Case Study of Refugee Vulnerability in Greece | p. 167 |
| From From Violence to Reconstruction: The Making, Disintegration and Remaking of an Apartheid City | p. 183 |
| From Cultural Hegemony and the Race-Definition Process in Chinatown, Vancouver, 1880-1980 | p. 209 |
| From Locality, Politics, and Culture: Popular in the 1920s | p. 235 |
| From Sow What You Know: The Struggle for Social Reproduction in Rural Sudan | p. 255 |
| From Contesting Places of Memory: The Case of Auschwitz | p. 271 |
| Social Justice, Postmodernism and the City | p. 291 |
| Society, Space and Citizenship: A Human Geography for the "New Times"? | p. 309 |
| Situated Knowledge through Exploration: Reflections on Bunge's "Geographical Expeditions" | p. 328 |
| References | p. 348 |
| Index | p. 359 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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