`Introducing Social Geographies' is a major new text offering a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to this important area of human geography. It presents a broad overview of social geography, clearly outlining the key theoretical and political positions, and making extensive use of examples to show how these frameworks can be used to analyse real social issues.The book is ideal for undergraduates first encountering social geography and includes topic overviews, summaries of key points, critiques, boxed case studies and suggestions for further reading.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Society, material life and geography; Chapter 2 Work, class and social life; Chapter 3 The place of leisure; Chapter 4 Communities; Part II Power, identity and social geography; Chapter 5 Race and ethnicity; Chapter 6 Geographies of gender and sexuality; Chapter 7 Age, generation and lifecourse; Chapter 8 Geographies of disability; Part III Social geography and social problems; Chapter 9 Society, nature and landscape; Chapter 10 Housing, space and society; Chapter 11 Crime, space and inequality; Chapter 12 Geographies of poverty;