Fitting into place? : class and gender geographies and temporalities /
Class, race a\nd gender (dis)advantages are situated in relation to urban-rural contrasts, where 'future selves' are reconfigured in and through 'local' and 'global' sites: people inhabit shifting times and places, from industrial landscapes of the 'past', to...
| Основен автор: | Taylor, Yvette, 1978- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
℗♭2012.
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Fitting into place? |
Съдържание:
- 1. Fitting into place? Class and gender geographies and temporalities
- Meanings, experiences and opportunities of 'fitting into place' ; The place of class and gender ; Class, gender and 'fitting into place' ; De-industrialisation: tired associations, continued (re)claimings ; In transition: social, economic, cultural capitals ; Places to be? Leisure economics, leisured selves ; Residing inequalities or 'knowing where you stand' ; Reconfigurations of class and gender in 'changing' times
- 2. 'City publics' and the 'public sociologist'
- Distance ; Place ; Movement ; Use: let's get down to business, shall we? ; Shadow spaces, shadow subjects
- 3. Affective geographies: regional re-framings
- Mapping character: geographies of the North/South ; Moving forwards: 'then' and 'now' ; Civilisation, cosmopolitanism, capacity
- 4. Geographies of choice (or not)
- Choice, competence, care ; Mediating (dis)location, placing pragmatism
- 5. Fertile spaces: landscaping gender
- Angel of the North ; The youth of today ; (Un)familiar, (un)familial geographies: the Byker Wall and the 'Jesmond Face'
- 6. Geographies of excess: 'what's in a name, what's in a number?'
- Posh areas and parameters of privilege ; Composing and Compromising the 'good mix' ; 'Chav City' and geographical excess ; Racist geographies (shortages, surplus, spills)
- 7. Regeneration and degeneration: proximities and distances
- Improving people, improving places ; Crowded out/claiming capital ; Consultation, competence and counter-attacks
- Conclusion: returns and escapes
- Appendix 1 : Thumbnail sketches
- Appendix 2 : Young people's visual maps.