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Images of exclusion characterised western cultures over long historical periods. In the developed society of racism, sexism and the marginalisation of minority groups, exclusion has become the dominant factor in the creation of social and spatial boundaries. Geographies of Exclusion seeks to identify the forms of social and spatial exclusion, and subsequently examine the fate of knowledge of space and society which has been produced by members of excluded groups. Evaluating writing on urban society by women and black writers the author asks why such work is neglected by the academic establishment, suggesting that both practices which result in the exclusion of minorities and those which result in the exclusion of knowledge have important implications for theory and method in human geography. Drawing on a wide range of ideas from social anthropology, feminist theory, sociology, human geography and psychoanalysis, the book presents a fresh approach to geographical theory, highlighting the tendency of powerful groups to purify' space and to view minorities as defiled and polluting, and exploring the nature of difference' and the production of knowledge.

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• Preface
• Part 1
• 1 Feelings about difference
• 2 Images of Difference
• 3 Border Crossings
• 4 Mapping the Pure and Defiled
• 5 Bounding Space: Purification and Control
• 6 Spaces of Exclusion: Home, Locality, Nation
• Part 2
• 7 The Exclusion of Knowledge
• 8 A Black Perspective on Social Space
• 9 Radical Women, Men of Science and Urban Society
• 10 Conclusion
• 11 Bibliography

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Sibley has written a "social geography of advanced capitalism," with a particular focus on "landscapes of exclusion" as manifestations of the expression of power. The underpinnings of hegemonic culture are revealed as the rules of inclusion and exclusion that structure society and affect the role of space in social control. Working from fundamental psychological influences that define attitudes to self and others, Sibley addresses the praxis of inclusion/exclusion, marginality/boundaries, and the spatialization of symbolic, ritualized, and mythic practices. His main thesis is that such issues should be central to a geography concerned with interpreting the nuances of space and place. A secondary focus is the way in which hegemonic controls defend "regions of knowledge" by erecting boundaries to exclude ideas and thinkers that challenge established views. Sibley demonstrates the ways by which academic disciplines assert their power through the definition of "legitimate" knowledge and "appropriate" inquiry through two case studies of marginalization: the African American sociologist W.E.B. DuBois; and female urban sociologists, e.g., Jane Addams and Edith Abbott. The text is accompanied by 10 plates, 6 figures, footnotes, and some 200 bibliographic references. Upper-division undergraduates and above. B. Osborne Queen's University at Kingston

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David Sibley teaches in the Department of Geography, University of Hull.