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<p>List of Illustrations viii</p> <p>List of Contributors ix</p> <p> 1 Introduction 1 <br /><i>Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., Mary E. Thomas, Paul Cloke, and Ruth Panelli</i></p> <p><b>Part I Ontological Tensions in/of Society and Space 11</b></p> <p>Introduction 11 <br /><i>Paul Cloke</i></p> <p> 2 Difference 17 <br /><i>Sarah de Leeuw, Audrey Kobayashi, and Emilie Cameron</i></p> <p> 3 Identifi cation 37 <br /><i>Katharine McKinnon</i></p> <p> 4 Social Natures 55 <br /><i>Katharine Meehan and Jennifer L. Rice</i></p> <p> 5 Economie$ 72 <br /><i>Geoff Mann</i></p> <p> 6 Community 91 <br /><i>Marcia England</i></p> <p> 7 Belonging 108 <br /><i>Caroline Nagel</i></p> <p><b>Part II Thinking and Doing Social Geographies 125</b></p> <p>Introduction 125 <br /><i>Vincent J. Del Casino Jr.</i></p> <p> 8 Knowing/Doing 131 <br /><i>Richard Howitt</i></p> <p>9 Framing the Field 146 <br /><i>Joanne Sharp and Lorraine Dowler</i></p> <p>10 On the Ground 161 <br /><i>Bettina van Hoven and Louise Meijering</i></p> <p>11 Leaving the Field 181 <br /><i>Carolyn Gallaher</i></p> <p>12 The Worldly Work of Writing Social Geography 198 <br /><i>Lieba Faier</i></p> <p>13 Participatory Praxis and Social Justice 214 <br /><i>mrs c kinpaisby-hill</i></p> <p>14 Using Social Geography 235 <br /><i>Sarah Johnsen</i></p> <p><b>Part III Matters and Meaning 251</b></p> <p>Introduction 252 <br /><i>Mary E. Thomas</i></p> <p>15 Molecular Life 257 <br /><i>Gail Davies</i></p> <p>16 Psychic Life 275 <br /><i>Hester Parr and Joyce Davidson</i></p> <p>17 Sexual Life 293 <br /><i>Gavin Brown, Kath Browne, and Jason Lim</i></p> <p>18 Emotional Life 309 <br /><i>Deborah Thien</i></p> <p>19 Affective Life 326 <br /><i>Keith Woodward</i></p> <p>20 Embodied Life 346 <br /><i>Isabel Dyck</i></p> <p>21 Discursive Life 362 <br /><i>Chris Philo</i></p> <p>22 Spiritual Life 385 <br /><i>Julian Holloway</i></p> <p>23 Virtual Life 401 <br /><i>Mike Crang</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Power and Politics 417</b></p> <p>Introduction 417 <br /><i>Ruth Panelli</i></p> <p>24 Geopolitics 421 <br /><i>Nancy Hiemstra and Alison Mountz</i></p> <p>25 The Geographies of Marginalization 437 <br /><i>Dan Trudeau and Chris McMorran</i></p> <p>26 Care and Caring 454 <br /><i>David Conradson</i></p> <p>27 The Challenges of and from Indigenous Geographies 472 <br /><i>Brad Coombes, Nicole Gombay, Jay T. Johnson, and Wendy S. Shaw</i></p> <p>28 Transnational Geographies and Human Rights 490 <br /><i>Amy Ross</i></p> <p>29 Resistance(s) and Collective Social Action 508 <br /><i>Paul Chatterton and Nik Heynen</i></p> <p>Index 526</p>

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<p>THE EDITORS</p> <p><b>Vincent J. Del Casino Jr.</b> is Professor and Chair of Geography at California State University, Long Beach. He has published extensively on social geography, the geographies of health, geographic methodologies, critical cartography, and representational politics. His recent books include <i>Social Geography: A Critical Introduction</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) and <i>Mapping Tourism </i>(2003). <p><b>Mary E. Thomas</b> is Assistant Professor of Geography and Women’s Studies at Ohio State University. Her research examines racial segregation among US youth populations and the perpetuation of racism, sexism, and white hegemony in the practices of young women. Her book on teen girls, racial segregation, and urban education in Los Angeles, California is forthcoming. <p><b>Paul Cloke </b>is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on the social and cultural geographies of rural areas, and is Founder Editor of the Journal of Rural Studies. His recent books include <i>Swept Up Lives? Re-envisioning the Homeless City</i> (with Jon May and Sarah Johnsen, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and <i>Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption</i> (with Clive Barnett, Nick Clarke, and Alice Malpass, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). <p><b>Ruth Panelli</b> is former Reader in Human Geography at University College London and is now ­participating in community work and research in rural New Zealand. She has published writings on responses to individual and collective experiences of difference and her books include <i>Social Geographies: From Difference to Action</i> (2004) and <i>Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth</i> (ed. with Samantha Punch and Elsbeth Robson, 2007).

<p>Despite claims about the “death of social geography” in the 1990s, the sub-discipline has since been rethought and there has been a resurgent concern for and interest in social geographic thought and practice. This volume traces the complexity of social geography as it is practiced and discussed in both its historical and present contexts. </p> <p>Taking in the major debates and practices of social geography this companion works across the theoretical, methodological, practical, and political concerns that make social geography so important to the field of geography more broadly. Structured to encourage readers to confront the ontological tensions that run through social geographic thought, this volume does not resolve these tensions, but calls on readers to think about their own theoretical and political positions and asks them to consider how their intellectual choices compel them to appreciate the way they frame their social geographies. <p><i>A Companion to Social Geography</i> covers traditional topics such as gender, race, class, sexuality, ­marginalization, and care and caring, whilst also challenging the common assumptions that restrict the possibilities for provocative growth in the sub-discipline.

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