Society and Space

Question 1

Cresswell (2014)

Answer 1

• Place and people are connected, cannot define a place without considering the people that use it.
• Relationship most apparent when people are ‘out of place’
• Transgression - key concept when considering normality

Question 2

Little (2014)

Answer 2

• Initial Concerns involved mapping society onto space
• Co-construction of society and space, post modern
• Different uses of space = night time economy
  } 1950s - Mapping society onto space
  } 1970-80s - Harvey, Massey, Dorling ideas more active space and highly influenced by the people
  } 1990s - Co-construction of space and society
• Moved from space as a container of social differences to an active part of how inequalities develop

Question 3

Soja (1986)

Answer 3

• Third Space - Use of certain spaces to cause an impression, playing with exclusion and inclusion
• USA - Black Lives matter campaign using third space

Question 4

May (2014)

Answer 4

• Members of society are separated from what comprises the normal for them.
• Stigma associated with them - further exclusion.
• Inhabit marginal spaces - rarely challenged
• Marginalised but able to create a stable life.
• Los Angeles - ‘Bum-proof’ seats excluding ht homeless
• they are constructed as different

Question 5

Valentine (2003)

Answer 5

• Intersectionality - Different elements of identity crossing over
• part of multiple groups: race, age, gender, sexuality

Question 6

Hubbard (2012)

Answer 6

‘Space is where social life is socially produced’