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.
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Human geography--Philosophy. Social structure Minorities Marginality, Social