Geographies of Privilege / France Winddance Twine and Bradley Gardener.

Other author Twine, France Winddance, 1960- editor.
Other author Gardener, Bradley, editor.
Format Book
Edition1st edition.
PublicationNew York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Descriptionxxi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Social classes.
Elite (Social sciences)
Race awareness.
White people--Race identity.

Contents Foreword / Donald Martin Carter and Heather Merrill -- Introduction / France Winddance Twine and Bradley Gardener -- Part I. Privileged Bodies in Pleasure and Leisure Spaces: Sex, Music and Dance Clubs: 1. The geography of sex work in the United Arab Emirates / Pardis Mahdavi; 2. Displacing place identity: introducing an analytics of participation / Kevin Durrheim, Clinton Rautenbach, Tamaryn Nicholson and John Dixon; 3. Chicago's southside blues-scapes: creeping commodification and complex human response / David Wilson -- Part II. Privileged Migrants and Post-Colonial Racism: Africans, Europeans and Transnational Movements: 4. Landscaping privilege: being British in South Africa / Pauline Leonard; 5. The visa whiteness machine: transnational mobility in post-apartheid South Africa / Max J. Andrucki; 6. Who gets to be Italian?: black life worlds and white imaginaries / Heather Merrill; 7. Human blacklisting: the global apartheid of the EU's external border regime / Henk Van Houtum -- Part III. Unstable Privileges: Class Inequality, Residential Mobility and Whiteness: 8. Swedish whiteness in southern Spain / Catrin Lundström; 9. Residential mobility and the market value of whiteness in Boston / Melissa MacDonald and France Winddance Twine; 10. From racial discrimination to class segregation in postcolonial urban Mozambique / David Morton; 11. Unsettling the privilege of self-reflexivity / Andrea Smith -- Part IV: Gendered Privileges and Gendered Vulnerabilities: Public and Private Spaces: 12. Gendered vulnerabilities in Muslim American civil rights advocacy / Erik Love; 13. Masculine privilege: the culture of bullying at an elite private school / Brett G. Stoudt; 14. Zones of exclusion: the experience of Scottish girls / Hazel McFarlane and Nancy Hansen.
Abstract 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 volume's 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012029343
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