Full Description
This illuminating book offers a new perspective on social science inquiry into the spatial dimensions of societal well-being; addressing the key question of who gets what, and where.
Leading scholars Linda M. Lobao and Gregory Hooks adopt an organizing framework that speaks to the concept of spatial inequality, how it forms a lens on societal disparities, and how it gives rise to work with underlying commonalities across different social science disciplines. With this scaffolding, the authors consider spatial inequality across spatial scales, places, and populations, including the subnational scale, so often missing in inequality research. Illustrative cases center on poverty, public service provision and austerity policies, environmental justice, and war and conflict. The book concludes by advancing an integrative social science agenda to guide future emancipatory research on inequality.
Rethinking Spatial Inequality is a vital resource for students and scholars of inequality across the social sciences including sociology, human geography, development, regional, urban, and rural studies, demography, and political science. Policymakers and practitioners in public service provision will also benefit from this perceptive book.
Contents
Contents
1 Introduction: rethinking spatial inequality 1
PART I RETHINKING SPATIAL INEQUALITY:
CONCEPTUAL ANCHORS
2 Spatial inequality as a concept, lens, and area of inquiry 27
3 Reproducing spatial inequality: opening the dialogue between
perspectives 60
PART II BRINGING IN A SPATIAL INEQUALITY APPROACH
4 Spatial inequality as poverty across places and their
populations 86
5 Public service provisioning as a marker of spatial inequality 107
6 Environmental (in)justice and spatial inequality 130
7 The spatial inequality of war 153
8 Conclusion: advancing the study of spatial inequality 177
References 187
Index 218
