Geographies of Privilege [Hardcover]

How are social inequalities experienced, reproduced and challenged in local, global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing, education, pleasure, leisure, social relationships)?

The case studies inGeographies of Privilegedemonstrate how power operates and is activated within local, national, and global networks. Twine and Gardener have put together a collection that analyzes how the centrality of spaces (domestic, institutional, leisure, educational) are central to the production, maintenance and transformation of inequalities. The collected readings show how power--in the form of economic, social, symbolic, and cultural capital--is employed and experienced.

The volumes contributors take the reader to diverse sites, including brothels, blues clubs, dance clubs, elite schools, detention centers, advocacy organizations, and public sidewalks in Canada, Italy, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Mozambique, South Africa, and the United States.  Geographies of Privilegeis the perfect teaching tool for courses on social problems, race, class and gender in Geography, Sociology and Anthropology.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Foreword Donald Martin Carter and Heather Merrill

IntroductionFrance Winddance Twine and Bradley Gardener

PART I: Pleasure and Leisure Spaces: Sex, Music and Privileged Bodies