Space, Place, and Violence: Violence and the Embodied Geographies of Race, Sex and Gender

ISBN-13: 9780415880831 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 240 str.

James A. Tyner

Opis

Direct, interpersonal violence is a pervasive, yet often mundane feature of our day-to-day lives. Paradoxically, violence is both ordinary and extraordinary. Violence, in other words, is often hidden in plain sight. Space, Place, and Violence seeks to uncover that which is too apparent: to critically question both violent geographies and the geographies of violence. With a focus on direct violence, this book situates violent acts within the context of broader political and structural conditions. Violence, it is argued, is both a social and spatial practice. Adopting a geographic perspective, Space, Place, and Violence provides a critical reading of how violence takes place and also produces place. Specifically, four spatial vignettes home, school, streets, and community are introduced, designed so that students may think critically how race, sex, gender, and class inform violent geographies and geographies of violence.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Everyday Geographies of Violence  Violence as Subject.  Towards a Geographic Understanding of Violence.  Making Space, Constructing Place  Chapter 2: Home  Home as Refuge?  Constructions of Home.  Intimate Partner Violence.  Same-Sex Domestic Violence.  Home, Nation, and Violence.  Conclusions  Chapter 3: School  Discipline In/Of Schools.  School Subjects and Violence.  Conclusions  Chapter 4: The Streets  Modernity and the Serial Killer.  The Serial Killer as Urban Redeveloper.  (Eliminating) Sex on the Streets.  The Streets of Ciudad Juarez.  Conclusions  Chapter 5: Community  Communities and Sovereign Geographies.  Shifting Borders, Shaping Communities.  (B)ordering Communities.  Communal Belonging and Losings.  Conclusions Chapter 6: Violence and the Pedagogy of Impunity

O autorze

James A. Tyner (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Professor Geography at Kent State University. His research interests include political, population, and social geography. He is the author of 11 books, including Military Geographies: A World Made by War (Routledge).