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Sibley, David 1940-

Geographies of exclusion society and difference in the West txt David Sibley. - First published - xviii, 206 p. ill. 24 cm. book

Include index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-196)

Feelings about difference --
Images of difference --
Border crossings --
Mapping the pure and the defiled --
Bounding space: purification and control --
Spaces of exclusion: home, locality, nation --
The exclusion of knowledge --
W.E.B. Dubois: a Black perspective on social space --
Radical women, men of science and urban society.

Analyses the construction of socio-spatial boundaries seen in gedner, colour, sexuality, age, lifestyle and disability, arguing that powerful groups tend to dominate space to create fear of minorities in the home, community and state.

ISBN: 0415119243 0415119251 9780415119252

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human geography--Philosophy.
Social structure
Minorities
Marginality, Social

LC Class. No.: GF21 / S53 1999

Dewey Class. No.: 305