The Power of geography : how territory shapes social life
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The Power of geography : how territory shapes social life
Unwin Hyman, 1989
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This collection of essays demonstrates how territory (defined as geographically-organized human activity) shapes social life, and explores some of the consequences of this shaping. It elucidates how routine practices of daily living in the realm of social reproduction - gender, family, education, tradition, culture and ethnicity - within territorial limits are effective in maintaining and reproducing the social order of contemporary capitalism. The editors see one of the aims of this book as being a contribution towards the reconstruction of social theory in the light of increasing complexity of interaction between society and space. They hope to provide new focus on contemporary capitalist society. This work provides a demonstration of the territorially-dependent nature of the political, social and economic spheres of human activity.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Introduction and overview: how territory shapes social life, Michael J.Dear and Jennifer R.Wolch. Part 2 Industrialism, the state and civil society: the geographical foundations and social regulation of flexible production complexes, Michael Storper and Allen J.Scott
- collective consumption, Steven Pinch
- the politics of turf and the question of class, Kevin R.Cox. Part 3 Industrial society: class and gender relations in the local labour market and local state, Ruth Fincher
- a feminist perspective on employment and gentrification - the case of Montreal, Damaris Rose
- the mobility of capital and the immobility of female labour - responses to economic restructuring, Gerda R.Wekerle and Brent Rutherford. Part 4 The state: interpretive practices, the state and the locale, Nicholas K.Blomley
- the shadow state - transformations in the voluntary sector, Jennifer R.Wolch
- social reproduction and housing alternatives - co-operative housing in post-war Canada, Vera Chouinard
- privatization and dependency on the local welfare state, Glenda Laws
- the organization of space in 19th century lunatic asylums, Chris Philo. Part 5 Civil society: incorporation theory and the reproduction of community fabric, Geraldine Pratt
- community exclusion of the mentally ill, S.Martin Taylor
- mirrors of power - reflective professionals in the neighbourhood, Dana Cuff
- the grassroots in action - gays and seniors capture the local state in West Hollywood, California, Adam Moos
- disability and the reproduction of bodily images - the dynamics of human appearances, Harian Hahn.
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