Moral Geographies

Question 1

Identify four groups of the economically marginal:

Answer 1

Winchester and White (1988)

- the unemployed, particularly the long-term
unemployed;
- the impoverished elderly;
- students; and
- single-parent families

Question 2

Three groups that can be categorized as both economically and socially marginal, the two dimensions generally reinforcing one another:

Answer 2

Winchester and White (1988)

• ethnic minorities;
• refugees; and
• the handicapped (either mentally or physically), and
  the chronically sick (notably including people with
  AIDS).

Question 3

Moral geography is…

Answer 3

(Creswell 2005)

“the idea that certain people, things and practices belong in certain places… and not in others”

Question 4

Historical anecdotes of moral geography

Answer 4

(Mitchell, 2003)

Women, non-white men, disabled people and LGBT people have been denied access to public space and have had to fight their way into the public sphere and to win the right to representation as part of the political public

Question 5

Critiques of Moral Policing

Answer 5

(Valentine, 2001)

Academic community argue increase in monitoring/policing is killing the democratic mix and vitality of the streets = the end of truly ‘public’ space.

Question 6

Cities play a crucial role in the formation of cultures. These cultures involve…

Answer 6

Knox and Pinch (2010)

‘ways of life’ including the values that people hold, the norms that they follow and the material objects that they use.

Question 7

All cultures are hybrid mixtures of various influences that change over time and so

Answer 7

Knox and Pinch (2010)

the notion that there is some pure authentic culture is a myth.

Question 8

Space plays a crucial role in the evolution of cultural values since, like culture…

Answer 8

Knox and Pinch (2010)

it is a social construct intimately bound up with power and authority.

Question 9

Although postmodernism is a much-disputed concept, many of the recent changes in cities such as the
focus upon consumption and growing fragmentation and diversity can be interpreted as

Answer 9

Knox and Pinch (2010)

a manifestation of the postmodern condition.

Question 10

Crisis communality

Answer 10

Knox and Pinch (2010)

Refers to instances where people feel and express concern with order, conformity and social homogeneity

Question 11

What is Internal Cohesion?

Answer 11

Knox and Pinch, 2010

When people – especially minorities – feel threatened… they often have a strong demand for internal cohesion.

Question 12

References to remember…

Answer 12

Knox and Pinch, 2010 x 6
Valentine, 2001
Mitchell, 2003
Creswell, 2005
Winchester and White, 1988