A companion to social geography / edited by Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr. ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Del Casino, Vincent J.

Series:

Wiley-Blackwell companions to geography.

Wiley-Blackwell companions to geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (623 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Summary:

This volume traces the complexity of social geography in both its historical and present contexts, whilst challenging readers to reflect critically on the tensions that run through social geographic thought. * Organized to provide a new set of conceptual lenses through which social geographies can be discussed * Presents an original intervention into the debates about social geography * Highlights the importance of social geography within the broader field of geography

Contents:

""Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Geography""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Illustrations""; ""Contributors""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""Questioning the Normative "We"""; ""Social Geographical Turns""; ""Mapping A Companion to Social Geography""; ""Part I: Ontological Tensions in/of Society and Space""; ""Ontological Tensions in/of Society and Space""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 2 Difference""; ""Theorizing Difference""; ""Putting Difference in Its Place: How Geographers Deal with Difference""; ""Toward a Different Difference""; ""Concluding Differences""

""Chapter 3 Identification""""Introduction""; ""Geographies of Identification""; ""Defining Identification""; ""Identification and the State""; ""Transformative Possibilities""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 4 Social Natures""; ""Introduction""; ""Producing Nature""; ""Unsettling the Social""; ""A Site Ontology of Social Natures""; ""Material Worlds, Emerging Politics, and Concluding Thoughts""; ""Chapter 5 Economie""; ""Introduction""; ""The "Social Geography" of "Economies"?""; ""The Economic as Category""; ""Money and the Challenge of the "Macro"""

""Conclusion: From Economies to the Economic""""Chapter 6 Community""; ""Introduction""; ""Scales of Community""; ""Community as Relationship""; ""Defining Community""; ""Communal Identity""; ""Purified Communities""; ""Territoriality""; ""Imagined Communities""; ""Communitarianism""; ""Decline of the Community""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 7 Belonging""; ""Introduction""; ""Dimensions of Belonging""; ""The Emotional Dimension of Belonging""; ""The Formal Dimension of Belonging""; ""The Normative Dimension of Belonging""; ""The Negotiated Dimension of Belonging""; ""Conclusion""

""Part II: Thinking and Doing Social Geographies""""Thinking and Doing Social Geographies""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 8 Knowing/Doing""; ""A Manifesto for "Radical Contextualist" Approaches to Social Geography""; ""Awkward Sticky Messes in Social Geography""; ""Weaving Social Geographies from Personal Narrative, Social History, Cultural Biography""; ""Sticky Moments: Narrating Geographies of Coexistence""; ""Radical Contextualist Orientations to Engagement with Place, Scale, and Process""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 9 Framing the Field""; ""Introduction""

""Stout Boots and Hairy Chests: Fieldwork Traditions""""Feminist and Postcolonial Challenges""; ""Performing the Field""; ""Familiar Fields""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 10 On the Ground""; ""Thinking Through the Production of Knowledge""; ""Institutional Contexts of Knowledge Production""; ""Situating the Politics of Knowledge Construction""; ""The Effect of Methods on Knowledge Production""; ""Actor-networks, the Non-representational, and Changing Relations in Doing Geography""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 11 Leaving the Field""; ""Never Forget Why You Went in the First Place""

""Preparing Your Data""

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Companion v. to: Social geography / Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr. 2009".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Del Casino, Vincent J. Social geography.

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