Society, Space, and Social Justice: Geographies of Intersectionality

Author:   Jennifer Y. Pomeroy ,  Vandana Wadhwa ,  Caitlin M. Alcorn ,  Luis Emilio Cecchi
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781498594806


Pages:   212
Publication Date:   25 October 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Society, Space, and Social Justice addresses the social axes of class, disability, gender, race, and “others,” and their intersections with sociocultural and political-economic structures in a variety of geographic scales and settings spanning the globe: Brazil, India, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Uganda and the United States. Collectively, the chapters in this book present social injustice in changing and complex world contexts, each context underpinned by theoretical frameworks that facilitate a greater understanding. Methodologically diverse, the books’ chapters employ both quantitative and qualitative techniques to uncover these forms of (in)justice and the underlying processes that contribute to their genesis and regeneration. Environment and outdoors, employment and labor, health and disease, housing, infrastructure and urban design: the studies in this book span across such varied interests and themes, all woven around and grounded by concepts of place and place so as to transcend disciplinary boundaries and hold relevance for geography as well as related fields. A timely collection in an era where “old isms” find deeper entrenchments or new manifestations, this book provides examples of both social injustices and approaches to social justice, examined through case studies that provide an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms by which social justice might be perverted, thwarted or achieved.

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Author:   Jennifer Y. Pomeroy ,  Vandana Wadhwa ,  Caitlin M. Alcorn ,  Luis Emilio Cecchi
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9781498594806


ISBN 10:   1498594808
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   25 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I – Emerging and Continuing Spaces of Social Injustice Chapter 1: Community Starts at Home: Toward Equitable Housing for People with Disabilities Andrew Myers, Lillie Greiman, Brendan Hogg, Rayna Sage, Craig Ravesloot Chapter 2: Environmental Justice and Outdoor Spaces: Structural Racism’s Persistence, and the Dynamics of Change Yonit Yogev Chapter 3: Subversion of Gender Justice: Public Policy on Sri Lankan Migrant Housemaids Vidyamali Samarasinghe Chapter 4: Territorialization of Violence: Temporality and Scale: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Mumbai, India, in the Mid-1990s Emmanuel Eliot Chapter 5: A Woman’s Place: Examining Perceptions of Urban Social Space in India Vandana Wadhwa and Jennifer Y. Pomeroy Part II – Structural Approaches to Social Justice Chapter 6: Intersectional Organizing as an Approach to Social Justice: Lessons from Brazil’s Domestic Workers’ Movement Caitlin M. Alcorn Chapter 7: Freedom, Justice and Space: Infrastructure as a Driver of Spatial Justice? Luis Emilio Cecchi Chapter 8: AIDS and Aid in Uganda: PEPFAR—Social Justice or Structural Violence? Vandana Wadhwa and Poojitha Kondabolu Conclusion: Reflections on ‘Tranquil Waters’ Index About the Contributors

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Geographers often study social justice through the lens of class, caste, race, or gender. In Society, Space, and Social Justice, Jennifer Pomeroy and Vandana Wadhwa take an intersectional approach to the multidimensional issues of social justice, which are intertwined with globally expressed spatial connotations. This edited collection is unique and should be critically acclaimed. -- Saraswati Raju, Jawaharlal Nehru University


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Jennifer Y. Pomeroy is assistant professor of geography in the Department of History and Political Science at York College of Pennsylvania. Vandana Wadhwa is founder/CEO of Meridian R&C, LLC, which provides consulting on academic and applied research and best practices and strategies.

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