Yvette Taylor

Fitting into Place? (eBook, ePUB)

Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fitting into Place adopts a multi-dimensional interdisciplinary approach to explore shifting geographies and temporalities that re-constitute 'city publics' - and the place of the 'public sociologist'. Class, race and gender (dis)advantages are situated in relation to urban-rural contrasts, where 'future selves' are reconfigured in and through 'local' and 'global' sites: people inhabit shifting times and places, from industrial landscapes of the 'past', to a current present and (imagined) 'cosmopolitan' 'regenerated' future. The rhetorics and vocabularies of place, as affective and material, suggest a more complex 'fit' than the language of masculine 'crisis' for past-times, or 'feminised' fit into new-futures, suggests. Across the generations, women's labour is still effaced as maps of loyalty hold up families as reference points of belonging and 'fitting in'; such architecture of place complicates reified 'geographies of choice' which centre a middle-class mobile subject. Based upon funded empirical research, this book will be of interest to sociologists and geographers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317134886
• Artikelnr.: 49353594

Autorenporträt

Yvette Taylor is a Professor and Head of the Weeks Centre for Social and Policy Research at the London South Bank University, UK and editor of Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Fitting into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities
Chapter 2 'City Publics' and the 'Public Sociologist'
Chapter 3 Affective Geographies: Regional Re-framings
Chapter 4 Geographies of Choice (or Not)
Chapter 5 Fertile Spaces: Landscaping Gender
Chapter 6 Geographies of Excess: 'What's in a name, What's in a number?'
Geographies of Excess
Chapter 7 Regeneration and Degeneration: Proximities and Distances
Conclusion Returns and Escapes