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Body Cultures explores the relationship between the body, sport and
landscape. This book presents the first critically edited
collection of Henning Eichberg's provocative essays into 'body
culture'. Eichberg, a well-known scholar in continental Europe who
draws upon the ideas of Elias, Focault, Habermas and others, is now
attracting considerable interest from Anglo-American sociologists,
historians and geographers. This collection has been extensively
edited to highlight Eichberg's most important arguments and themes.
Introductory essays from the editors and Susan Brownell provide
clear explanations and interpretations as well as a biography of
Eichberg.
In a myriad of ways, animals help make up the societies in which we
live. People eat animals, wear products made from them, watch them
in zoos or on television, keep them in their houses and in factory
farms, hunt them and experiment on them, and place them in
mythology and stories. This work examines how animals interact and
relate with people in different ways. Through a comprehensive range
of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic
animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the
complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed
together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love
and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and power. As
humans we have placed different animals into different categories,
according to some notion of species, usefulness, domesticity or
wildness. As a result of these varying and often contested
orderings, animals are assigned to particular places and
spaces.;This book shows us that there are many exceptions and
variations on the spatiality of human-animal spatial orderings,
within and across cultures, and over time. It develops new ways of
thinking about human animal inter
Animal Spaces, Beastly Places examines how animals interact and relate with people in different ways. Using a comprehensive range of examples, which include feral cats and wild wolves, to domestic animals and intensively farmed cattle, the contributors explore the complex relations in which humans and non-human animals are mixed together. Our emotions involving animals range from those of love and compassion to untold cruelty, force, violence and power. As humans we have placed different animals into different categories, according to some notion of species, usefulness, domesticity or wildness. As a result of these varying and often contested orderings, animals are assigned to particular places and spaces. Animal Spaces, Beastly Places shows us that there are many exceptions and variations on the spatiality of human-animal spatial orderings, within and across cultures, and over time. It develops new ways of thinking about human animal interactions and encourages us to find better ways for humans and animals to live together.
Social policy and human geography are intimately intertwined yet
frequently disconnected fields. Whilst social policies are always
conceived, implemented and experienced in and through geography,
the role of place in social policy scholarship and practice is
frequently overlooked. Bringing together experts from both fields,
this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography
offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically
into the neglected spatialities of policy scholarship, practice and
experience. By building the necessary bridges towards a spatial
social policy, this book enables the enhanced design, performance
and understanding of social policies once properly rooted in their
multiple spatialities.
This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it. The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more abstract perspectives within a wide geographical and cultural spectrum. Case studies include German Reunification; Jamaican Yardies on British Television; Victorian Sexuality and Moralisation in Cremorne Gardens; Ethnicity, Gender and Nation in Ecuador; Sport as Power; the film Falling Down. Entanglements of Power presents an exciting and challenging account of the symbiotic relationship between domination and resistance, and contextualises this within the parameters of geography with a rich body of case-study material and a respected team of contributors.
Social policy and human geography are intimately intertwined yet
frequently disconnected fields. Whilst social policies are always
conceived, implemented and experienced in and through geography,
the role of place in social policy scholarship and practice is
frequently overlooked. Bringing together experts from both fields,
this collection illuminates the myriad of ways that human geography
offers rich insights conceptually, empirically and methodologically
into the neglected spatialities of policy scholarship, practice and
experience. By building the necessary bridges towards a spatial
social policy, this book enables the enhanced design, performance
and understanding of social policies once properly rooted in their
multiple spatialities.
This volume tackles the complex terrain of theory and methods,
seeking to exemplify the major philosophical, social-theoretic and
methodological developments - some with clear political and ethical
implications - that have traversed human geography since the era of
the 1960s when spatial science came to the fore. Coverage includes
Marxist and humanistic geographies, and their many variations over
the years, as well as ongoing debates about agency-structure and
the concepts of time, space, place and scale. Feminist and other
'positioned' geographies, alongside poststructuralist and
posthumanist geographies, are all evidenced, as well as writings
that push against the very 'limits' of what human geography has
embraced over these fifty plus years. The volume combines readings
that are well-known and widely accepted as 'classic', with readings
that, while less familiar, are valuable in how they illustrate
different possibilities for theory and method within the
discipline. The volume also includes a substantial introduction by
the editor, contextualising the readings, and in the process
providing a new interpretation of the last half-century of change
within the thoughts and practices of human geography.
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