Social Geography
A Critical Introduction
Critical Introductions to Geography
1. Auflage Februar 2009
336 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Introducing the debates that inform current social geographic
research and theory and interrogating the historical development of
social geography, Social Geography: A Critical Introduction
explores how urban and rural spaces are organized in ways that
construct and maintain social inequality.
* Puts into context the assumptions of various strains of social
geographic thought as they have developed historically
* Assists students in addressing key social geographic questions
and methodologies
* Provides a showcase for cutting edge work in the field
* Is written in an accessible and lively style, setting out a
wide breadth of social geographic research
List of Tables.
List of Boxes.
List of Abbreviations.
Acknowledgements.
Cover Image.
Introduction.
Part I Historicizing Social Geography: From Theory to
Methodology.
1 Social Geography? What's That?
2 Social Geography in Three Acts and an Epilogue.
3 Thinking Methodologically.
Part II Social Geographies across the Life Course.
4 Social Geography and the Geographies of Health.
5 Communities and Organizations.
6 Social Activism/Social Movements/Social Justice.
Part III Social Geographies through the Life Course.
7 On the Geographies of Children and Young People.
8 Social Geographies of the "Mid-Life"?
9 Ageing and the "New" Social Geographies of Older People.
Part IV Conclusions.
10 Epilogue v. 2.0.
11 Rethinking the Social Geographies of Difference and
Inequality.
References.
Index.
social geographies of gender, race, age, sex and so on, Del Casino
is breaking the mould. He is offering something far superior ...
[and] very accessible and student friendly." (Tijdschrift voor
Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2012)
