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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Michael P. Brown , Cindy PattonPublisher: Guilford Publications Imprint: Guilford Publications Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.372kg ISBN: 9781572302228ISBN 10: 1572302224 Pages: 222 Publication Date: 23 October 1997 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsReviewsThe reminder at the conclusion of the book that AIDS has fallen by the wayside as a pressing social issue reinforces the importance of this book for scholars interested in questions of ethics and geography. It is a case study in combining a concern for social justice with rigorous theoretically informed geographic research....it could be quite instructive as a supplemental reading in a graduate course on methodology, as well as social or political geography. Brown's constant evaluation of policies and their implications offers a model for socially relevant and critical research....Brown's work is an exemplar of ethical scholarship, both in its subject matter or no less importantly, in its methodological procedures. -- Ethics, Place and Environement <br> This is a book that operates on a number of levels. At one level, the reader is offered a useful critique of radical democratic theory and citizenship through an exploration of AIDS and AIDS politics in Vancouver....Secondly, in a commitment to radical citizenship and a rejection of 'high theory', Brown lays the groundwork for a 'new way of understanding the relationship between subjectivities and the state' in a way that seeks to bring bakt the 'individual' seen as inconsequential by a generation of critical theories. In a fitting commitment to action, the author offers a moving insight into the lives of those who live and work in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. -- Space and Polity <br> Brown shows us that politics is geographically placed and that the diffuse nature of power in the democratic state places politics in overlapping spaces of the state, civil society and the family. Furthermore, he shows us that the construction ofthese spaces can empower and disempower political action. This is an extraordinarily important contribution. -- Left History <br>.,. a valuable contribution to the fields of government, citizenship, and geography....this book...has an important message for many citizens of today's free world. -- Aids Education and Prevention <br>.,. because the book is framed around the task of charting citizenship, it serves to raise a plethora of questions concerning the similarity and difference of experiences across different socio-cultural contexts (i.e. different cities, different countries)....Brown's book provides a very engaging account of the impact of HIV in one city and in one context. Yet, more importantly, it can equip its reader with an insight into the geographical imagination which, for non-geographers at least, can provide a stimulating new perspective on one's own work. -- Aids Care <br>.,. this book...has an important message for many citizens of today's free world. -- Aids Education and Prevention <br> A highly recommended book for all libraries. -- AIDS Book Review Journal <br> This book is a stimulating addition to the geographical literature on urban politics and AIDS and is recommended reading for anyone with an interest in these fields. It is clearly written, it provides fresh insights into the spacial underpinnings of citizenship, its empirical focus illuminates a much-neglected area of AIDS-related research and, more generally, it underscores the value of dialogue between abstract theory and empirical investigation. - -Progress in Human Geography <br> Sociologists of politics, social movements, or lesbian and gay issues will find in the book useful expositions ofdemocratic theory that can inspire further sociological work. Brown has provided a thought-provoking theoretical exercise, some engaging case scenarios, and a map metaphor that ought to help other citizenship researchers chart interesting destinations. -- American Journal of Sociology <br> Michael Brown breaks new ground in the field of political philosophy by situating radical democracy in a practical context. By synthesizing discussions of radical democracy, postmodern geography, and AIDS in a single work, Brown addresses the now-common critique of radical democracy as an abstract or utopian discourse. Examining the sort of `new politics spaces' surrounding AIDS care provides exactly the kind of specificity that critics of radical democracy are demanding. Brown's book is an excellent resource for individual readers and those in college-level courses looking for a way to discuss the ideas of radical democracy in an applied context. --David Trend, Editor of Radical Democracy: Identity, Citizenship, and the State; Dean, Creative Arts Division, De Anza College, Author of the forthcoming book, Cultural Democracy: Politics/Identity/New Media In this unsentimental yet moving book, Michael P. Brown perceptively charts a new political geography of citizenship. His account draws together abstract political theory and detailed empirical research to show how responses to the AIDS crisis in Vancouver have blurred the boundaries between the conventionally separate realms of state, civil society and family and challenged traditional interpretations of citizenship. By bringing both an ethnographic sensitivity and an geographical imagination to his study of the politics of AIDS, Brown illuminates both the possibilities and the limitations of the project of 'radical democracy.' RePlacing Citizenship opens up the study and the practice of urban politics to a new spatial awareness, and serves as an eloquent testimony to the courage of those living with and dying from AIDS. --Joe Painter, Ph.D., Lecturer in Geography, University of Durham, UK In his participant-observation study of specific AIDS groups and events in Vancouver, Brown lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding the relationship between subjectivities and the state....For Brown, 'just being there' for a sick buddy or at the moveable memorial AIDS quilt can express a deep and radical democracy: the bedside of a woman or man rejected by family and the exhibition halls and lawns where the AIDS quilt temporarily sits are both postmodern spaces in which affect reemerges as a central modality of citizenship....Brown has opened the door to a very different way of imagining and acting on the hybrid spaces that we fragmentarily inhabit, and only transiently control. Like the frame-shattering work of early gender performance theorists, Brown is among those whose work demands that we think and do politics differently. --from the Foreword by Cindy Patton Author InformationMichael P. Brown, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and attended Clark University and the University of British Columbia. His research interests are in urban political and cultural geography. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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