Description
Fitting into Place adopts a multi-dimensional interdisciplinary approach to explore shifting geographies and temporalities that re-constitute 'city publics' - and the place of the 'public sociologist'. Class, race and gender (dis)advantages are situated in relation to urban-rural contrasts, where 'future selves' are reconfigured in and through 'local' and 'global' sites: people inhabit shifting times and places, from industrial landscapes of the 'past', to a current present and (imagined) 'cosmopolitan' 'regenerated' future. The rhetorics and vocabularies of place, as affective and material, suggest a more complex 'fit' than the language of masculine 'crisis' for past-times, or 'feminised' fit into new-futures, suggests. Across the generations, women's labour is still effaced as maps of loyalty hold up families as reference points of belonging and 'fitting in'; such architecture of place complicates reified 'geographies of choice' which centre a middle-class mobile subject. Based upon funded empirical research, this book will be of interest to sociologists and geographers.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Fitting into Place? Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities; Chapter 2 ‘City Publics’ and the ‘Public Sociologist’; Chapter 3 Affective Geographies: Regional Re-framings; Chapter 4 Geographies of Choice (or Not); Chapter 5 Fertile Spaces: Landscaping Gender; Chapter 6 Geographies of Excess: ‘What’s in a name, What’s in a number?’; Geographies of Excess; Chapter 7 Regeneration and Degeneration: Proximities and Distances; Conclusion Returns and Escapes;
