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In this module the geographies of power with respect to social identity and social issues are examined. The course focuses on the role of space and place to expose the power geometries (e.g. ableism, racism, sexism, homophobia) that shape the lives of different social groups (e.g. disabled people, black people, Travellers, men/women, gay people) in relation to various aspects of daily life (e.g. education, employment, housing, welfare, family).
By the end of this course you should have developed an understanding of how identities are socially constructed (rather than being fixed or ‘natural’) through spatial relationships, and how social difference is produced and power deployed through the organisation of space. You should be familiar with the changing ways in which social geographers have mapped relationships between identity and space, and have acquired analytical tools to think how geography is implicated in issues of social, political and economic exclusion, social justice and citizenship and be able to construct moral geographies that address these issues.
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SOCIAL GEOGRAPHIES
