Racial and post-racial senses of place / guest editors, Karim Murji and Giovanni Picker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Murji, Karim, 1960- editor.

Picker, Giovanni, editor.

Series:

International journal of sociology and social policy ; Volume 39, Number 11/12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (112 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Emerald Publishing, [2019]

Summary:

The relationship between space, place and race, and sociology's contribution to that,is the theme of this ebook. When Urry argued that 'place (and space) should be centralto sociology' (Urry 2004: 30) he was clearly signalling that was not the case; his essayexamines some of the reasons why that is so, especially sociology's uneven engagement withthem. While space was largely under-explored in classical sociology, Urry shows that spaceand place made a comeback in the 1970s and 1980s, through the works of Castells, Masseyand Harvey. Significantly two of these three are primarily known as geographers rather thansociologists and this reflects the ways in which sociology has ceded space and place togeography in its exploration of dichotomises between urban and rural ways of life and formsof community life. Hence it appears that sociologists 'have given the appearance of notbeing interested in place-perhaps preferring to leave the matter to geographers.' (Gieryn,2000: 464). Drawing on Massey's progressive sense of place in particular Urry goes on to make a case for a sense of place that is dynamic and mobile, not static; as spacescharacterised and made up flows and networks, rather than any neatly bounded notion; and asspaces where difference, particularly gender and ethnicity are central. To an extent, the latter,especially through the interest in diaspora communities and multiple meanings of home, fusesall of Urry's elements of place as made up of flows of people and things across borders thatalso reflects his critique of the 'container' model of society (Urry 2000, 2001).

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83982-353-4