Geographies Of Privilege
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Author |
: France Winddance Twine |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2013-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135092979 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135092974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Geographies of Privilege by : France Winddance Twine
How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)? The case studies in Geographies of Privilege demonstrate how power operates and is activated within local, national, and global networks. Twine and Gardener have put together a collection that analyzes how the centrality of spaces (domestic, institutional, leisure, educational) are central to the production, maintenance and transformation of inequalities. The collected readings show how power--in the form of economic, social, symbolic, and cultural capital--is employed and experienced. The volume’s contributors take the reader to diverse sites, including brothels, blues clubs, dance clubs, elite schools, detention centers, advocacy organizations, and public sidewalks in Canada, Italy, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Mozambique, South Africa, and the United States. Geographies of Privilege is the perfect teaching tool for courses on social problems, race, class and gender in Geography, Sociology and Anthropology.
Author |
: Aaron Koh |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2016-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317675082 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317675088 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elite Schools by : Aaron Koh
Geography matters to elite schools — to how they function and flourish, to how they locate themselves and their Others. Like their privileged clientele they use geography as a resource to elevate themselves. They mark, and market, place. This collection, as a whole, reads elite schools through a spatial lens. It offers fresh lines of inquiry to the ‘new sociology of elite schools.’ Collectively the authors examine elite schools and systems in different parts of the world. They highlight the ways that these schools, and their clients, operate within diverse local, national, regional, and global contexts in order to shape their own and their clients’ privilege and prestige. The collection also points to the uses of the transnational as a resource via the International Baccalaureate, study tours, and the discourses of global citizenship. Building on research about social class, meritocracy, privilege, and power in education, it offers inventive critical lenses and insights particularly from the ‘Global South.’ As such it is an intervention in global power/knowledge geographies.
Author |
: Stephen Richard Higley |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0847680215 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780847680214 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Privilege, Power, and Place by : Stephen Richard Higley
In the first analytical study of where the American upper-class lives and vacations, Stephen R. Higley explores the ways in which upper-class residential places are created and maintained. Drawing on the Social Register as a main source of data, Higley examines the intersection of class, status, and geography, and demonstrates the ways in which physical proximity solidifies upper-class consciousness.
Author |
: Laura R. Barraclough |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2011-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820337579 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820337579 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making the San Fernando Valley by : Laura R. Barraclough
In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley--home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles--Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-theground investigation of contemporary life in this iconic western suburb. She is particularly intrigued by the Valley's many rural elements, such as dirt roads, tack-and-feed stores, horse-keeping districts, citrus groves, and movie ranches. Far from natural or undeveloped spaces, these rural characteristics are, she shows, the result of deliberate urbanplanning decisions that have shaped the Valley over the course of more than a hundred years. The Valley's entwined history of urban development and rural preservation has real ramifications today for patterns of racial and class inequality and especially for the evolving meaning of whiteness. Immersing herself in meetings of homeowners' associations, equestrian organizations, and redistricting committees, Barraclough uncovers the racial biases embedded in rhetoric about "open space" and "western heritage." The Valley's urban cowboys enjoy exclusive, semirural landscapes alongside the opportunities afforded by one of the world's largest cities. Despite this enviable position, they have at their disposal powerful articulations of both white victimization and, with little contradiction, color-blind politics.
Author |
: Choon-Piew Pow |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2009-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134020973 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113402097X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gated Communities in China by : Choon-Piew Pow
This book examines the nature and dynamics of gated communities within the specificities of reform Shanghai, a city that arguably has been at the forefront of China’s new urban/consumer revolution.
Author |
: Shannon Sullivan |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2006-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253112132 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253112133 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revealing Whiteness by : Shannon Sullivan
"[A] lucid discussion of race that does not sell out the black experience." -- Tommy Lott, author of The Invention of Race Revealing Whiteness explores how white privilege operates as an unseen, invisible, and unquestioned norm in society today. In this personal and selfsearching book, Shannon Sullivan interrogates her own whiteness and how being white has affected her. By looking closely at the subtleties of white domination, she issues a call for other white people to own up to their unspoken privilege and confront environments that condone or perpetuate it. Sullivan's theorizing about race and privilege draws on American pragmatism, psychology, race theory, and feminist thought. As it articulates a way to live beyond the barriers that white privilege has created, this book offers readers a clear and honest confrontation with a trenchant and vexing concern.
Author |
: Katie Walsh |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2018-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781119050452 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1119050456 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transnational Geographies of The Heart by : Katie Walsh
Transnational Geographies of the Heart explores the spatialisation of intimacy in everyday life through an analysis of intimate subjectivities in transnational spaces. Draws on ethnographic research with British migrants in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, during a phase of rapid globalisation and economic diversification in 2002-2004 Highlights the negotiation of inter-personal relationships as enormously significant in relation to the dialectic of home and migration Includes four empirical chapters focused on the production of ‘expatriate’ subjectivities, community and friendships, sex and romance, and families Demonstrates that a critical analysis of the geographies of intimacy might productively contribute to our understanding of the ways in which intimate subjectivities are embodied, emplaced, and co-produced across binaries of public/private and local/global space
Author |
: Doreen Massey |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2013-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745654829 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745654827 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis World City by : Doreen Massey
Cities around the world are striving to be 'global'. This book tells the story of one of them, and in so doing raises questions of identity, place and political responsibility that are essential for all cities. World City focuses its account on London, one of the greatest of these global cities. London is a city of delight and of creativity. It also presides over a country increasingly divided between North and South and over a neo-liberal form of globalisation - the deregulation, financialisation and commercialisation of all aspects of life - that is resulting in an evermore unequal world. World City explores how we can understand this complex narrative and asks a question that should be asked of any city: what does this place stand for? Following the implosion within the financial sector, such issues are even more vital. In a new Preface, Doreen Massey addresses these changed times. She argues that, whatever happens, the evidence of this book is that we must not go back to 'business as usual', and she asks whether the financial crisis might open up a space for a deeper rethinking of both our economy and our society.
Author |
: Victoria Lawson |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 269 |
Release |
: 2018-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820353128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820353124 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Relational Poverty Politics by : Victoria Lawson
This collection examines the power and transformative potential of movements that fight against poverty and inequality. Broadly, poverty politics are struggles to define who is poor, what it means to be poor, what actions might be taken, and who should act. These movements shape the sociocultural and political economic structures that constitute poverty and privilege as material and social relations. Editors Victoria Lawson and Sarah Elwood focus on the politics of insurgent movements against poverty and inequality in seven countries (Argentina, India, Brazil, South Africa, Thailand, Singapore, and the United States). The contributors explore theory and practice in alliance politics, resistance movements, the militarized repression of justice movements, global counterpublics, and political theater. These movements reflect the diversity of poverty politics and the relations between bureaucracies and antipoverty movements. They discuss work done by mass and other types of mobilizations across multiple scales; forms of creative and political alliance across axes of difference; expressions and exercises of agency by people named as poor; and the kinds of rights and other claims that are made in different spaces and places. Relational Poverty Politics advocates for poverty knowledge grounded in relational perspectives that highlight the adversarial relationship of poverty to privilege, as well as the possibility for alliances across different groups. It incorporates current research in the field and demonstrates how relational poverty knowledge is best seen as a model for understanding how theory is derivative of action as much as the other way around. The book lays a foundation for realistic change that can directly attack poverty at its roots. Contributors: Antonádia Borges, Dia Da Costa, Sarah Elwood, David Boarder Giles, Jim Glassman, Victoria Lawson, Felipe Magalhães, Jeff Maskovsky, Richa Nagar, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, LaShawnDa Pittman, Frances Fox Piven, Preeti Sampat, Thomas Swerts, and Junjia Ye.
Author |
: Ananya Roy |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 391 |
Release |
: 2015-11-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820348438 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820348430 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Territories of Poverty by : Ananya Roy
Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of poverty, poor people’s movements, and global networks of poverty expertise, as well as more intimate modes of poverty action such as volunteerism. From post-Katrina New Orleans to Korean church missions in Africa, this book is fundamentally concerned with how poverty is territorialized. In contrast to studies concerned with locations of poverty, Territories of Poverty engages with spatial technologies of power, be they community development and counterinsurgency during the American 1960s or the unceasing anticipation of war in Beirut. Within this territorial matrix, contributors uncover dissent, rupture, and mobilization. This book helps us understand the regulation of poverty—whether by globally circulating models of fast policy or vast webs of mobile money or philanthrocapitalist foundations—as multiple terrains of struggle for justice and social transformation.