society and difference in the West Sibley, David 1940- creator text bibliography enk 1995 First published monographic eng

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xviii, 206 p. ill. 24 cm. 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. 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. David Sibley. Include index. Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-196) Human geography Philosophy Social structure Minorities Marginality, Social GF21 S53 1999 305 0415119243 0415119251 9780415119252 pucpr 131008 20201021160742.0 eng