This timely exploration of social geography reveals how inequality and justice unfold across interconnected scales around the globe. Through embodied, relational encounters, the book unpacks how everyday spaces shape who we are and what we might become. Grounded in care and hope, it invites readers to imagine fairer futures and remain committed to meaningful, long-term change. The text offers a dynamic, case-driven, and sometimes image-driven exploration of pressing social issues in our increasingly unequal, post-pandemic world. Designed for student engagement, the book provides real-world…mehr
This timely exploration of social geography reveals how inequality and justice unfold across interconnected scales around the globe. Through embodied, relational encounters, the book unpacks how everyday spaces shape who we are and what we might become. Grounded in care and hope, it invites readers to imagine fairer futures and remain committed to meaningful, long-term change. The text offers a dynamic, case-driven, and sometimes image-driven exploration of pressing social issues in our increasingly unequal, post-pandemic world. Designed for student engagement, the book provides real-world case studies that span the globe, critical concepts, and thought-provoking questions to help readers analyse injustice, build conceptual "toolkits," and imagine routes toward meaningful social change. Rather than offering easy answers, this book equips readers with flexible, practical frameworks-encouraging selective, critical thinking to better understand and communicate complex social problems. Ideal for classroom use and independent study, it empowers students to connect theory with action and to think like geographers committed to justice. The book also includes Engagement Questions, encouraging readers to reflect on the subject of the chapter and the wider topics within the field of social geography. This book is essential reading for students of social and political geography, and allied fields of urban, health and wellbeing, and political geographies.
Geoff DeVerteuil is Professor of Social Geography at Cardiff University, in the School of Geography and Planning. Andrew (Andy) Power is Professor of Geography at the School of Geography and Environmental Science at University of Southampton.
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Lists of figures List of tables List of boxes Preface Acknowledgements PART 1 - Foundations of the Textbook and a Relational Social Geography Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.1 Social Geographies in our contemporary times: Themes of the Social, Inequality and Social Justice 1.2 Crosscutting threads: Relationality and encounter 1.3 The Structure of the Book 1.4 Moving Forward: Pedagogic Approach 1.5 The geographies of this book Chapter 2: Everyday Spaces of Difference, Identity and Inequality 2.1 Geographies of Difference, Production and Social Reproduction 2.2 Identity and Intersectionality 2.3 From Difference to Inequality: Distributional and Recognitional Understandings 2.4 From Inequality to Inequity: Spatial Expressions 2.5 Conclusions Chapter 3. The State, Citizenship and Rights 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The State and Governance 3.3 Citizenship and the Evolution of Rights 3.4 Geographies of Rights 3.5 Civil rights emerge amid contested geographies of citizenship 3.6 Tracing the Spaces of Exception in 'Ordinary' Everyday Lived Citizenship 3.7 Conclusion Chapter 4: Geographies of State Support and Welfare 4.1 Social Justice Theories of State Support 4.2 Defining the Welfare State 4.3 The Welfare State Across the World 4.4 A Welfare State Divided and 'Reformed' 4.5 Localising and materialising encounters with the welfare state: street-level bureaucracy and contact zones 4.6 The post-welfare state alongside the pandemic expansion 4.7 Conclusions Chapter 5: Geographies of Care and Voluntarism 5.1 Geographies of Care 5.2 Care and Social Infrastructure 5.3 The voluntary sector 5.4 Philanthropy 5.5 Conclusions PART 2 - The Social Geographies of Spaces of Encounter Chapter 6: Geographies of Youth and Intersectionality 6.1 The Social Construction of Youth 6.2 Intersectionality and (Stigmatised) Youth 6.3 Contemporary Geographies of Youth and the Spaces of Encounter 6.4 Conclusions Chapter 7: Social Geographies of Race 7.1 Race and Social Geography: Definitions, Segregation and Early Interventions 7.2 Race and Social Geography Today: Social and Spatial Constructions 7.3 Race and Social Geography: Emerging Topics in the 2020s 7.4 Case Study: Immigration in the UK since 2000 7.5 Conclusions Chapter 8: Poverty and Marginality 8.1 Social Geography and Poverty 8.2 Stigmatisation, invisibility and marginalisation 8.3 Marginality and the racialised American ghetto 8.4 Marginality, waste and excess 8.5 Case study of the poor, racialised and marginalised: Photo essay of homeless service hubs in Los Angeles 8.6 Precarity and the perpetual hustle 8.7 Conclusions Chapter 9: Disability and Caregiving 9.1 Disability and the Social Geographies of Care 9.2 Disability and the Historical Geography of Care 9.3 Challenging Social and Spatial Exclusion of Disabled People 9.4 Caregivers in/by the Community 9.5 A Geography of Carers 9.6 Conclusions Chapter 10: Mental Health and Addiction 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Mental Health and Social Geography 10.3 The social geographies of stigmatising mental ill-health 10.4 A societal view on managing stigmatising mental ill-health 10.5 In-between encounters: The social geographies of addiction 10.6 Conclusions: Mundane mental health during and after the pandemic Chapter 11: The Housing Crisis: Homelessness, Gentrification and Generation Rent 11.1 Home, Housing and Security 11.2 The Housing Crisis and Housing Precarity 11.3 The Decline of Public (Social) Housing 11.4 Housing Crisis in Action: Platform economies and mega-events 11.5 Signs and Outcomes of a Housing Crisis: The State and the 1% 11.6 Signs and Outcomes of the Housing Crisis: Gentrification 11.7 Signs and Outcomes of a Housing Crisis: Homelessness 11.8 'Generation Rent' and Wealth Inequality 11.8 Conclusions Chapter 12 Gender and Sexuality 12.1: Introduction 12.2: Gender Inequality: politics and work 12.3 Hegemonic and Contested Geographies of Masculinity 12.4 Gendered and sexed geographies beyond binaries 12.5 Conclusions PART 3. Geographies of Hope for Social Justice Chapter 13 Geographies of Alternative Spaces, Resilience and Slow/Quiet Activism 13.1: Social Encounters with Quiet Activism 13.2: The commons 13.3: Counterpublics, Safe Spaces and Counter-places 13.4: Resilience 13.5: Abolition Geographies 13.6: Conclusions and shifting encounters with activism and social justice Chapter 14: Geographies of Resistance and Direct Action 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Public Space, Protest and Occupation 14.3 Unpacking Public Space and Protest 14.4 Case Study: Resistance and The Emergence of the Disabled People's Movement 14.5 Moving beyond parochial accounts of public space and protest 14.6 Going too far? The case of social unrest 14.7 Spaces for activists and hope 14.8 Conclusions Chapter 15: Conclusions Towards a more hopeful framing?
Lists of figures List of tables List of boxes Preface Acknowledgements PART 1 - Foundations of the Textbook and a Relational Social Geography Chapter 1 - Introduction 1.1 Social Geographies in our contemporary times: Themes of the Social, Inequality and Social Justice 1.2 Crosscutting threads: Relationality and encounter 1.3 The Structure of the Book 1.4 Moving Forward: Pedagogic Approach 1.5 The geographies of this book Chapter 2: Everyday Spaces of Difference, Identity and Inequality 2.1 Geographies of Difference, Production and Social Reproduction 2.2 Identity and Intersectionality 2.3 From Difference to Inequality: Distributional and Recognitional Understandings 2.4 From Inequality to Inequity: Spatial Expressions 2.5 Conclusions Chapter 3. The State, Citizenship and Rights 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The State and Governance 3.3 Citizenship and the Evolution of Rights 3.4 Geographies of Rights 3.5 Civil rights emerge amid contested geographies of citizenship 3.6 Tracing the Spaces of Exception in 'Ordinary' Everyday Lived Citizenship 3.7 Conclusion Chapter 4: Geographies of State Support and Welfare 4.1 Social Justice Theories of State Support 4.2 Defining the Welfare State 4.3 The Welfare State Across the World 4.4 A Welfare State Divided and 'Reformed' 4.5 Localising and materialising encounters with the welfare state: street-level bureaucracy and contact zones 4.6 The post-welfare state alongside the pandemic expansion 4.7 Conclusions Chapter 5: Geographies of Care and Voluntarism 5.1 Geographies of Care 5.2 Care and Social Infrastructure 5.3 The voluntary sector 5.4 Philanthropy 5.5 Conclusions PART 2 - The Social Geographies of Spaces of Encounter Chapter 6: Geographies of Youth and Intersectionality 6.1 The Social Construction of Youth 6.2 Intersectionality and (Stigmatised) Youth 6.3 Contemporary Geographies of Youth and the Spaces of Encounter 6.4 Conclusions Chapter 7: Social Geographies of Race 7.1 Race and Social Geography: Definitions, Segregation and Early Interventions 7.2 Race and Social Geography Today: Social and Spatial Constructions 7.3 Race and Social Geography: Emerging Topics in the 2020s 7.4 Case Study: Immigration in the UK since 2000 7.5 Conclusions Chapter 8: Poverty and Marginality 8.1 Social Geography and Poverty 8.2 Stigmatisation, invisibility and marginalisation 8.3 Marginality and the racialised American ghetto 8.4 Marginality, waste and excess 8.5 Case study of the poor, racialised and marginalised: Photo essay of homeless service hubs in Los Angeles 8.6 Precarity and the perpetual hustle 8.7 Conclusions Chapter 9: Disability and Caregiving 9.1 Disability and the Social Geographies of Care 9.2 Disability and the Historical Geography of Care 9.3 Challenging Social and Spatial Exclusion of Disabled People 9.4 Caregivers in/by the Community 9.5 A Geography of Carers 9.6 Conclusions Chapter 10: Mental Health and Addiction 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Mental Health and Social Geography 10.3 The social geographies of stigmatising mental ill-health 10.4 A societal view on managing stigmatising mental ill-health 10.5 In-between encounters: The social geographies of addiction 10.6 Conclusions: Mundane mental health during and after the pandemic Chapter 11: The Housing Crisis: Homelessness, Gentrification and Generation Rent 11.1 Home, Housing and Security 11.2 The Housing Crisis and Housing Precarity 11.3 The Decline of Public (Social) Housing 11.4 Housing Crisis in Action: Platform economies and mega-events 11.5 Signs and Outcomes of a Housing Crisis: The State and the 1% 11.6 Signs and Outcomes of the Housing Crisis: Gentrification 11.7 Signs and Outcomes of a Housing Crisis: Homelessness 11.8 'Generation Rent' and Wealth Inequality 11.8 Conclusions Chapter 12 Gender and Sexuality 12.1: Introduction 12.2: Gender Inequality: politics and work 12.3 Hegemonic and Contested Geographies of Masculinity 12.4 Gendered and sexed geographies beyond binaries 12.5 Conclusions PART 3. Geographies of Hope for Social Justice Chapter 13 Geographies of Alternative Spaces, Resilience and Slow/Quiet Activism 13.1: Social Encounters with Quiet Activism 13.2: The commons 13.3: Counterpublics, Safe Spaces and Counter-places 13.4: Resilience 13.5: Abolition Geographies 13.6: Conclusions and shifting encounters with activism and social justice Chapter 14: Geographies of Resistance and Direct Action 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Public Space, Protest and Occupation 14.3 Unpacking Public Space and Protest 14.4 Case Study: Resistance and The Emergence of the Disabled People's Movement 14.5 Moving beyond parochial accounts of public space and protest 14.6 Going too far? The case of social unrest 14.7 Spaces for activists and hope 14.8 Conclusions Chapter 15: Conclusions Towards a more hopeful framing?
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