Böcker av Gill Valentine

Space and Society. This book focuses on eight spatial scales body, home, community, institutions, the street, the city, rural and nation. Each of these spaces represents the intersection of a range of connections, interrelations and movements of different people who have very different ways of participating in, understanding or belonging to them. Each chapter therefore explores how social identities gender, race, class, sexuality and relations are constructed in, and through these spaces, and how the meanings and uses of these spaces are contested by their different occupants. Questions of homogeneity and difference, control and

The Soham murders and the release from juvenile custody of the killers of Jamie Bulger captured contemporary fears about children as being both at risk and a cause of trouble in public space. This book addresses those fears and the extent to which childhood might be considered to be in crisis.

Providing a detailed review of the history of social geography, this text intends to make complex theoretical debates about space more accessible to students and encourage them to look at their own environments in new ways.