Social Geography

A Critical Introduction
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5500-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

Reihe: Critical Introductions to Geography

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Del Casino, Vincent J.

Del Casino, Vincent

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Politische Geographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures vii

List of Tables viii

List of Boxes ix

List of Abbreviations xi

Acknowledgements xiii

Cover Image xv

Introduction 1

Part I Historicizing Social Geography: From Theory to Methodology 9

1 Social Geography? What’s That? 11

2 Social Geography in Three Acts and an Epilogue 29

3 Thinking Methodologically 63

Part II Social Geographies across the Life Course 95

4 Social Geography and the Geographies of Health 97

5 Communities and Organizations 125

6 Social Activism/Social Movements/Social Justice 154

Part III Social Geographies through the Life Course 183

7 On the Geographies of Children and Young People 185

8 Social Geographies of the “Mid-Life”? 211

9 Ageing and the “New” Social Geographies of Older People 238

Part IV Conclusions 265

10 Epilogue v. 2.0 267

11 Rethinking the Social Geographies of Difference and Inequality 275

References 282

Index 311

Über Autor(innen)

Vincent J. Del Casino Jr is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach. He is Book Review Editor of the journal Social and Cultural Geography and has published numerous articles and co-edited the book Mapping Tourism (with Stephen Hanna) (2003).