Overview

Social policy and human geography are closely related disciplines with much to offer one another, though they often remain fixed within their own separate silos of debate and policy activity. Human geography offers rich insight into the vast range of spaces and scales in which social policies take place, providing an understanding of what place is, how and why people and policy makers think about difference spaces and how to analyse the multi-faceted spatialities of policy. Bringing together experts from both fields, this book provides the multi-layered conceptual, scalar, thematic and methodological bridges needed to connect these currently divided, but intimately related fields.

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Author:   John Clarke ,  Brian Webb (School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University) ,  Scott Orford (School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University) ,  Richard Harris
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Policy Press
ISBN:  

9781447337911

ISBN 10:   1447337913
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   13 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction ~ Adam Whitworth Section 1: Concepts Spaces of Welfare Localism: Geographies of Locality-Making ~ Martin Jones Doing space and star power: Foucault, exclusion-inclusion and the spatial history of social policy ~ Chris Philo Section 2: Themes Grenfell and the place of housing in modern life ~ Anna Minton Re-placing employment support: Multi-spatial activation diorama ~ Adam Whitworth Making markets: social impact investing and new spaces of financialisation in social policy ~ Jay Wiggan A critical neuro-geography of behaviourally - and neuroscientifically - informed public policy ~ Jessica Pykett Section 3: Methods Not just nuisance. Spatializing social statistics ~ Richard Harris Situating social policy analysis: Possibilities from quantitative and qualitative GIS ~ Scott Orford and Brian Webb Retrospective Developing a spatial social policy: Taking stock and looking to the future ~ John Clarke

Reviews

This book is to be greatly welcomed. Social policy analysis has tended to neglect - certainly to downplay - the significance of the spatial dimension, and this volume makes an admirable contribution towards correcting this imbalance. Nick Ellison, University of York

“This book is to be greatly welcomed. Social policy analysis has tended to neglect – certainly to downplay – the significance of the spatial dimension, and this volume makes an admirable contribution towards correcting this imbalance.” Nick Ellison, University of York

Author Information

Adam Whitworth is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sheffield.

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