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xviii, 206 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Feelings About Difference -- 2. Images of Difference -- 3. Border Crossings -- 4. Mapping the Pure and the Defiled -- 5. Bounding Space: Purification and Control -- 6. Spaces of Exclusion: Home, Locality, Nation -- 7. The Exclusion of Knowledge -- 8. W.E.B. Dubois: A Black Perspective on Social Space -- 9. Radical Women, Men of Science and Urban Society. |
| Summary |
"Western culture is based on exclusion. Its society places 'others' - women, blacks, children, the old, those with alternative lifestyles, gays, the disabled - as outsiders. At the core of this marginalization is the tendency of powerful groups to 'purify' and dominate space, to create fear of minorities and to ultimately exclude their voices and their knowledge."--BOOK JACKET. "Geographies of Exclusion analyses the construction of socio-spatial boundaries along the lines of gender, colour, sexuality, lifestyle, age and disability, exploring contemporary experiences of and writings on home, the community, the city and the state."--Jacket |
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Human geography -- Philosophy.
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Marginality, Social.
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Minorities.
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Social structure.
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Human geography -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst00963121
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Marginality, Social. (OCoLC)fst01009156
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Minorities. (OCoLC)fst01023088
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Social structure. (OCoLC)fst01123372
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| ISBN |
0415119243 |
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9780415119245 |
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0415119251 |
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9780415119252 |
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