General Flashcards
Books of Use
- Biased - Eberhardt (2019)
[The Equality Effect - Dowling (2017)][Spirit Level - Wilkinson and Pickett (2010)]
Pain et al (2001)
/ Del Casino (2009)
Social geog
- “Social geography is concerned with the ways in which social relations, social identities and social inequalities are produced, their spatial variation, and the role of space in constructing them”
- “…A constellation of theoretical and methodological approaches that converge and diverge in an attempt to understand the spatial organization of what we could broadly think of as difference and inequality”
Savage and Cunningham (2016)
Brexit and Geog Inequality - why Inequality matters
- voting patterns
- Remain uni cities
- econ link not explicit
Anderson (2016) Cultural Geog
Essentially draws on a lot of examples to explore how cultural geog seeing new exploration power through everyday – power not just as whole form at level state, but apparent in fractured small aspects in everyday – power impacts everyday different intensities. Draws a common theme of power and power intensity out of cultural geog work and how shifts what is cultural calls knew explorations. Limited as can be brief with some examples more than others – obviously trying to emphasise scope relevance but generally reviews lot papers into a common theme which he is emphasising or making explicit as adding level analysis to cultural politics – may be unappealing – not referenced much – perhaps as more review than adding something new to discipline – even says himself largely leans on Foucault’s ideas and current cultural work not radical eg. bringing together concepts not been put together before.
Panelli (2008) Social Geog Indigenous/ more-than-white geog
Essentially discusses importance of merging Western anglo narratives and indigenous geography – postcolonial approach, decolonise – esp think social geography chance to be particularly receptive. Expands through exploration of well explaining examples through geographical themes home/belonging, country and society-env relations. Concludes by linking discipline whole can benefit from wider range ontologies, reintegrate geog subfields and geog w other disciplines, and extend academic practice beyond west worldview. Report recognises own limits of choosing specific social geog examples, can’t be exhaustive; but main limit in idea that does not really explore challenges of such indigenous knowledge integration, just questions possible challenges briefly at the end. Not largely cited but fair amount may reflect fact postcolonial/ these ideas relatively new long history geog and as challenge geog foundations may have less uptake for fear shaking discipline.
Cosgrove and Jackson (1987) New directions cultural geog
Essentially this is an early piece introducing new idea of cultural geography, moving from landscape ideal, and merges cultural and social geographies – i.e. cultural as way understand social. Highly referenced and influential on the discipline, questions the turn and need for different methodologies in the crisis within cultural geography in realising that cultural artefacts aren’t simply about what meets the eye but include deeper meaning which often reflect the social context of its creation. Predicts the at this point unexplored cultural/social geog potentials eg. exploration middle-classes. Very important and although not relevant to current debates which have moved to take up what cosgrove implied would be necessary / should be explored, gives a real sense of historical progress of geog cultural discipline and the unease with the cultural turn.
Gregson (1995) Consumption
Gregson discusses consumption geography as a turn in social geography, a new fascination and wants to note the importance of analysising consumption – she is critical in reflecting on her own discipline – accusing it of masculine discourse and view of consumption spaces. An avid feminist, her passion perhaps comes across a little too strongly, not striking the correct balance between an academic and personal voice, and maybe gets in the way of a more rigorous analysis with deeper exploration of relevant academic debates and examples.
Crang (2009)
It may be that we can identify a recent ‘culturalization’ of many branches of geography, rather than simply a field of ‘cultural geography’
Anderson et al (2003)
Cultural geography is not bounded, but “a living tradition of disagreements, passions, commitments and enthusiasms”
Crang (1998)
“cultures as sets of beliefs or values that give meanings to ways of life and produce (and are reproduced through) material forms”
Culture Food eg
Horsemeat scandal - lot anger - disgust eat horse (cultural understanding - gut instinct)
- ordinary practice and culture
- culturally learned, socially produced response
Whatmore (2006) Materialist Returns
- connection geo (earth) and bio (life)
- resurfacing more-than-human world
- landscapes co-fabricated human and earth
- humans part non-humanity’s composition
Anderson (2018) Force Representations
- return concerns representations cultural geog - wake non-representational theories return what texts, images, words do
- new cultural geog 80s concerned symbolic/material violences representations - hidden but capacity harm - representations produced social structures - representations reproduced unequal classed, gendered, radicalised power relations
- non-representational theory - representations matter but too far taken new cultural geog - discursive idealism resting euro-modern idea culture
- shift to relationally - representations becoming with host other processes, material events - representational vs lived - impasse 2000s
- shift what representations do rather than what stand in for - link material worlds
- work = affect - what does something do, how are people moved, changed, affected
- agency of representations - part life
- work on representations-in-relation result loosening new cultural geog inquiry - movement to force representations, what something does
Panelli (2010) more-than-human social geog - posthuman
- society-nature relations poststructural, posthuman
- social geog is everywhere - concern uneven living conditions, social difference, identity struggles, unequal social power relations
- human geog increasingly aware complexity/interconnectivity life
- more-than-human goes - engagement with nature, ecotourism, animal geog, human-dog families
- hybrid netoworks, posthuman - whatmore 2002 hybrid geog and actor network theory - ways unravel binaries human/non-human - ANT and non-representational theories performativity applied investigations relational agency animals
- posthuman geog focus demise human to deconstructing human subject
- widening the social
Dewsbury and Thrift (2000)
- Butler performativity - gender performativity - behaviour creates gender, gender socially constructed, performative identities
- nonrepresentational theory Deleuze
