Full Description
This book illuminates the profound influence of geography on everyday life. Concentrating on the realm of social reproduction - gender, family, education, culture and tradition, race, ethnicity the contributors provide both an articulation of a theory of territory and reproduction and concrete empirical analyses of the evolution of social practices in particular places.
At the core of the book's contribution is the concept of society as a 'time-space' fabric, upon which are engraved the processes of political, economic and socio-cultural life. A second distinctive feature of the book is its substantive focus on the relation between territory and social practice. Thirdly, it represents a significant step in the redefinition of the research agenda in human geography.
Contents
Part 1: Introduction and Overview 1. How Territory Shapes Social Life Part 2: Industralism, the State and Civil Society 2. The Geographical Foundations and Social Regulation of Flexible Production Complexes 3. Collective Consumption 4. The Politics of Turf and the Question of Class Part 3: Industrial Society 5. Class and Gender Relations in the Local Labor Market and the Local State 6. A Feminist Perspective of Employment Restructuring and Gentrification: the case of Montréal 7. The Mobility of Capital and the Immobility of Female Labor: Responses to Economic Restructuring Part 4: The State 8. Interpretive Practices, the State and the Locale 9. The Shadow State: Transformations in the Voluntary Sector 10. Social Reproduction and Housing Alternatives: Cooperative Housing in Post-War Canada 11. Privatization and Dependencey on the Local Welfare State 12. 'Enough to Drive one Mad': the Organization of Space in 19th century lunatic asylums Part 5: Civil Society 13. Incorporation Theory and the Reproduction of Community Fabric 14. Community Exclusion of the Mentally Ill 15. Mirrors of Power: Reflective Professionals in the Neighbourhood 16. The Grassroots in Action: Gays and Seniors Capture the Local State in West Hollywood, California 17. Disability and the Reproduction of Bodily Images: the Dynamics of Human Appearances
