Geographies of Privilege

How are social inequalities experienced reproduced and challenged in local global and transnational spaces? What role does the control of space play in distribution of crucial resources and forms of capital (housing education pleasure leisure social relationships)? The case studies in Geographies of Privilege demonstrate how power operates and is activated within local national and global networks. Twine and Gardener have put together a collection that analyzes how the centrality of spaces (domestic institutional leisure educational) are central to the production maintenance and transformation of inequalities. The collected readings show how power--in the form of economic social symbolic and cultural capital--is employed and experienced. The volumeâs contributors take the reader to diverse sites including brothels blues clubs dance clubs elite schools detention centers advocacy organizations and public sidewalks in Canada Italy Spain United Arab Emirates Mozambique South Africa and the United States. Geographies of Privilege is the perfect teaching tool for courses on social problems race class and gender in Geography Sociology and Anthropology. . Language: English