Pain / Gough / Mowl Introducing Social Geographies

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4441-1872-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

`Introducing Social Geographies' is a major new text offering a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this important area of human geography. It presents a broad overview of social geography, clearly outlining the key theoretical and political positions, and making extensive use of examples to show how these frameworks can be used to analyse real social issues.

The book is ideal for undergraduates first encountering social geography and includes topic overviews, summaries of key points, critiques, boxed case studies and suggestions for further reading.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pain, Rachel

Gough, Jamie

Mowl, Graham

Barke, Michael

MacFarlene, Robert

Fuller, Duncan

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part A Society, material life and geography: Work, class and social life

The place of leisure

Communities. Part B: Power, identity and social geography: Race and ethnicity

Geographies of gender and sexuality

Age, generation and life course

Geographies of disability. Part C: Social Geography and social problems: Society, nature and landscape

Housing, space and society

Crime, space and inequality Geographies of poverty

Bibliography.