Geographies of exclusion : society and difference in the West /
Sibley, David,
Geographies of exclusion : society and difference in the West / David Sibley. - xviii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.
Feelings about difference -- Imgaes of difference -- Border crossings -- Mapping the pure and the defiled -- Bounding space: purification and control -- Spaces of exclusion: home, locality, nation -- The exclusion of knowledge -- W.E.B. Dubois : a black perspective on social space -- Radical women, men of science and urban society.
"Geographies of Exclusion identifies forms of social and spatial exclusion and subsequently examines the fate of knowledge of space and society which has been produced by members of excluded groups. Evaluating writing on urban society by women and black writers, David Sibley asks why such work is neglected by the academic establishment, suggesting that both the practices which result in the exclusion of minorities and those which result in the exclusion of knowledge have important implications for theory and method in human geography. Drawing on a range of ideas from social anthropology, feminist theory, sociology, human geography and psychoanalysis, this book presents a fresh approach to geographical theory, highlighting the tendency of powerful groups to "purify" space and to view minorites as defiled and polluting, and exploring the nature of "difference" and the production of knowledge."--Publisher description.
0415119243 9780415119245 0415119251 9780415119252
94047516
Human geography--Philosophy
Marginality, Social
Minorities
Social structure
GF21 / .S53 1995
305
Geographies of exclusion : society and difference in the West / David Sibley. - xviii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.
Feelings about difference -- Imgaes of difference -- Border crossings -- Mapping the pure and the defiled -- Bounding space: purification and control -- Spaces of exclusion: home, locality, nation -- The exclusion of knowledge -- W.E.B. Dubois : a black perspective on social space -- Radical women, men of science and urban society.
"Geographies of Exclusion identifies forms of social and spatial exclusion and subsequently examines the fate of knowledge of space and society which has been produced by members of excluded groups. Evaluating writing on urban society by women and black writers, David Sibley asks why such work is neglected by the academic establishment, suggesting that both the practices which result in the exclusion of minorities and those which result in the exclusion of knowledge have important implications for theory and method in human geography. Drawing on a range of ideas from social anthropology, feminist theory, sociology, human geography and psychoanalysis, this book presents a fresh approach to geographical theory, highlighting the tendency of powerful groups to "purify" space and to view minorites as defiled and polluting, and exploring the nature of "difference" and the production of knowledge."--Publisher description.
0415119243 9780415119245 0415119251 9780415119252
94047516
Human geography--Philosophy
Marginality, Social
Minorities
Social structure
GF21 / .S53 1995
305