Sage Handbook Of Social Geography, The

Description: The social relations of difference - from race and class to gender and inequality - is at the heart of the concept of social geography and this handbook reconsiders and redirects research in the discipline while examining the changing ideas of individuals and their relationship with structures of power. Organised into five sections, the "SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies" maps out the 'connections' anchored in social geography: Difference and Diversity builds on enduring ideas of the structuring of social relations and examines the ruptures and rifts, and continuities and connections around social divisions; Geographies and Social Economies rethinks the sociality, subjectivity and placement of money, markets, price and value; Geographies of Wellbeing builds from a foundation of work on the spaces of fear, anxiety and disease towards newer concerns with geographies of health, resilience and contentment; Geographies of Social Justice connects ideas through an examination of the possibilities and practicalities of normative theory and frames the central notion of Social geography, that things always could and should be different; and, Doing Social Geography is not exploring the 'how to' of research, but rather the entanglement of it with practicalities, moralities, and politics. This will be a essential resource for academics, researchers, practitioners and postgraduates in geography, sociology and cultural Studies.

Review: 'With clarity and confidence, this vibrant volume summons up 'the social' in Geography in ways that will excite students and scholars alike. Here the social is populated not only by society, but by culture, nature, economy and politics. It proliferates and pulses through diverse domains of geographic analysis and concern. The Handbook of Social Geography is a rich resource that maps a field and moves it on' - Kay Anderson, University of Western Sydney 'This is a remarkable collection, full of intellectual gems. It not only summarises the field of social geography, and restates its importance, but also produces a manifesto for how the field should look in the future' - Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick

Contents: Introduction: Situating Social Geographies - Susan J Smith, Rachel Pain, Sallie A Marston, and John Paul Jones III Section One: Difference and Diversity - Edited by John Paul Jones III Introduction: Social Geographies of Difference - John Paul Jones III Gender, Race, Sexuality - Linda Peake Social geographies of age and ageism: landscapes, lifecourses and justice - Rachel Pain and Peter Hopkins Disability, Health & Citizenship - Muchael L Dorn and Carla C Keirns Tensioned Landscapes and Contested Identities: Social Geographies of Difference and Relationships between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples - Audrey Kobayashi and Sarah de Leeuw Social Collisions - Katie D Willis Geographies of Affect - Keith Woodward and Jennifer Lea Assemblage Geographies - Paul Robbins and Brian Marks Section Two: Geographies and Social/Economy - Edited by Susan J. Smith Introduction: Into the Black Box - Susan J Smith Economic Society/Social - Roger Lee Geography Geographies of Financial Risk and Exclusion - Paul Bennet Emotional Economic Geographies - Nancy Ettlinger The Limits to Value - David B Clarke Publics and Markets. What's Wrong with Neoliberalism? - Clive Barnett Section Three: Geographies of Wellbeing - Edited by Rachel Pain and Susan J. Smith Introduction - Rachel Pain and Susan J Smith Geographies of Wellbeing - Robin A Kearns and Gavin J Andrews Health, Risk and Resilience - Rich Mitchell Towards a Geography of Health Discrimination - Susan J Smith and Donna Easterlow Phobias and Safe-keeping. Exploring Emotional Intersections Between Selves and Spaces - Joyce Davidson Fear and its Others - Hille Koskela Section Four: Geographies of Social Justice - Edited by Sally A. Marston Introduction - Sallie A Marston Geography and Social Justice - Marv Waterstone The Spaces of Being In-Common: Ethics and Social Geography - Jeff Popke Evironmental Justice and The Commons - Richard Howitt and Michael Hillman In Search of Safety: The Governance of Crime and the 'Re-moralization of City Spaces' - Nicholas R Fyfe A Social Geography of Human Rights - Amy Ross Section Five: Doing Social Geographies - Edited by Rachel Pain Introduction - Rachel Pain Participation - Sara Kindon Relevance - Lynn A Staeheli and Don Mitchell Goats in my Room: The Politics and Ethics of Trust in Geographic Research - Kathryn Besio Quantification - Mei-Po Kwan Positionalities: It's Not About Them, It's About Us - Kath Browne, with Leela Bakshi and Arthur Law