Tyner Space, Place, and Violence

Violence and the Embodied Geographies of Race, Sex and Gender
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-136-62462-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Direct, interpersonal violence is a pervasive, yet often mundane feature of our day-to-day lives; paradoxically, violence is both ordinary and extraordinary. Violence, in other words, is often hidden in plain sight. Space, Place, and Violence seeks to uncover that which is too apparent: to critically question both violent geographies and the geographies of violence. With a focus on direct violence, this book situates violent acts within the context of broader political and structural conditions. Violence, it is argued, is both a social and spatial practice. Adopting a geographic perspective, Space, Place, and Violence provides a critical reading of how violence takes place and also produces place. Specifically, four spatial vignettes – home, school, streets, and community – are introduced, designed so that students may think critically how ‘race’, sex, gender, and class inform violent geographies and geographies of violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tyner, James A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Everyday Geographies of Violence Violence as Subject. Towards a Geographic Understanding of Violence. Making Space, Constructing Place Chapter 2: Home Home as Refuge? Constructions of Home. Intimate Partner Violence. Same-Sex Domestic Violence. Home, Nation, and Violence. Conclusions Chapter 3: School Discipline In/Of Schools. School Subjects and Violence. Conclusions Chapter 4: The Streets Modernity and the Serial Killer. The Serial Killer as Urban Redeveloper. (Eliminating) Sex on the Streets. The Streets of Ciudad Juarez. Conclusions Chapter 5: Community Communities and Sovereign Geographies. Shifting Borders, Shaping Communities. (B)ordering Communities. Communal Belonging and Losings. Conclusions Chapter 6: Violence and the Pedagogy of Impunity

Über Autor(innen)

James A. Tyner (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Professor Geography at Kent State University. His research interests include political, population, and social geography. He is the author of 11 books, including Military Geographies: A World Made by War (Routledge).