Geographies Of Privilege

Author : France Winddance Twine,Bradley Gardener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415519618

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Geographies of Privilege by France Winddance Twine,Bradley Gardener Pdf

Geographies of Privilege brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars with a worldwide focus to reveal the nature of privilege on a global scale. The chapters examine privilege through a relational lens by showing the tension that exists between privileged (elite) and unprivileged (degraded) spaces. By including of persons and groups that are negatively affected by privileged practice, this book makes privilege studies more accessible to students who do not feel privileged.

Author : Aaron Koh,Jane Kenway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317675082

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Elite Schools by Aaron Koh,Jane Kenway Pdf

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 : France Winddance Twine,Bradley Gardener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135092979

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Geographies of Privilege by France Winddance Twine,Bradley Gardener Pdf

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 : Stephen Richard Higley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0847680215

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Privilege, Power, and Place by Stephen Richard Higley Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 7278 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780081022962

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International Encyclopedia of Human Geography by Anonim Pdf

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Second Edition, Fourteen Volume Set embraces diversity by design and captures the ways in which humans share places and view differences based on gender, race, nationality, location and other factors—in other words, the things that make people and places different. Questions of, for example, politics, economics, race relations and migration are introduced and discussed through a geographical lens. This updated edition will assist readers in their research by providing factual information, historical perspectives, theoretical approaches, reviews of literature, and provocative topical discussions that will stimulate creative thinking. Presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage on the topic of human geography Contains extensive scope and depth of coverage Emphasizes how geographers interact with, understand and contribute to problem-solving in the contemporary world Places an emphasis on how geography is relevant in a social and interdisciplinary context

Author : Laura R. Barraclough
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820336800

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Making the San Fernando Valley by Laura R. Barraclough Pdf

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
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134020973

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Gated Communities in China by Choon-Piew Pow Pdf

This is an examination of 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
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253112132

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Revealing Whiteness by Shannon Sullivan Pdf

"[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
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119050452

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Transnational Geographies of The Heart by Katie Walsh Pdf

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 : Dagmar Rita Myslinska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781003853213

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Law, Migration, and the Construction of Whiteness by Dagmar Rita Myslinska Pdf

This book addresses the hidden dynamics of race within the European Union. Brexit supporters’ frequent targeting of European Union (EU) movers, especially those from Central and Eastern Europe, has been popularly assumed as at odds with the EU project’s foundations based on equality and inclusion. This book dispels that notion. By interrogating the history, wording, omissions, assumptions and applications of laws, policies and discourses pertinent to mobility and equality, the argument developed throughout the book is that the parameters of CEE nationals’ status within the EU have been closely circumscribed, in line with the entrenched historical positioning of the west as superior to the east. Engaging current legal, economic, political and moral issues--against the backdrop of Brexit and contestations over EU integration and globalisation--this work opens avenues of thought to better understand law’s role in producing and sustaining social stratifications. Europe is a postcolonial space, as this book demonstrates. By addressing fractures within the construct of whiteness that are based on ethnicity, class and migrant status, the book also provides a theoretically nuanced, and politically useful, understanding of contemporary European racisms. This book will appeal to scholars, students and others interested in migration, EU integration and EU citizenship, equality law, race and ethnicity, social policy, and postcolonialism.

Author : Marian Burchardt,Gal Kirn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319455907

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Beyond Neoliberalism by Marian Burchardt,Gal Kirn Pdf

This book explores how changes that occurred around 1989 shaped the study of the social sciences, and scrutinizes the impact of the paradigm of neoliberalism in different disciplinary fields. The contributors examine the ways in which capitalism has transmuted into a seemingly unquestionable, triumphant framework that globally articulates economics with epistemology and social ontology. The volume also investigates how new narratives of capitalism are being developed by social scientists in order to better understand capitalism’s ramifications in various domains of knowledge. At its heart, Beyond Neoliberalism seeks to unpack and disaggregate neoliberalism, and to take readers beyond the analytical limitations that a traditional framework of neoliberalism entails. This book is a result of discussions at and support from the Irmgard Coninx Fundation.

Author : Pere Ayling
Publisher : Springer
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811357817

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Distinction, Exclusivity and Whiteness by Pere Ayling Pdf

This book offers unique insights into elite Nigerian parents’ engagement with, and use of, the international secondary education market as they attempt to retain their social standing - via their children - under today’s shifting global conditions. Throughout, the book tackles two important, albeit uncomfortable questions: Why does whiteness hold the highest possible value in postcolonial societies such as Nigeria? And, more importantly, why do black people accept the hegemonic discourse that West/white is best? Combining the theoretical frameworks of Pierre Bourdieu and Frantz Fanon, the book reveals ‘Whiteness’ as a highly valuable form of cultural and symbolic capital that plays a crucial role in the formation of, and struggle for, elite status and distinction in modern-day Nigeria. Drawing on rare qualitative data sets along with postcolonial literatures, the book reveals how British whiteness is used by those working at and for British private schools in Nigeria (BPS-NIG) as an informal but powerful mechanism of ‘quality’ control, and in constructing the image of ‘world-class’ educational establishments.

Author : Rachel Woodward
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786438874

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A Research Agenda for Military Geographies by Rachel Woodward Pdf

A Research Agenda for Military Geographies explores how military activities and phenomena are shaped by geography, and how geographies are in turn shaped by military practices. A variety of future research agendas are mapped out, examining the questions faced by geographers when studying the military and its effects.

Author : Andrew Baldwin,Laura Cameron,Audrey Kobayashi
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774820165

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Rethinking the Great White North by Andrew Baldwin,Laura Cameron,Audrey Kobayashi Pdf

Canadian national identity is bound to the idea of a Great White North. Images of snow, wilderness, and emptiness seem innocent, yet this path-breaking book reveals they contain the seeds of racism. Informed by the insight that racism is geographical as well as historical and cultural, the contributors trace how notions of race, whiteness, and nature helped construct a white country in travel writing and treaty making; in scientific research and park planning; and in towns, cities, and tourist centres. Rethinking the Great White North offers a new vocabulary for contemporary debates on Canada's role in the North and the meaning of the nation.

Author : Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro
Publisher : Praxis ePress
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Critical theory
ISBN : 9780889555662

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Critical Geographies by Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro Pdf