This book critiques how impoverished communities are represented by
politicians, the media, academics and policy makers - and how our
understanding of these neighbourhoods is, often misleadingly, shaped by
these stories. The alleged behavioural failings of 'poor people' have
attracted a great deal of academic and political scrutiny. Spatial
inequalities are also well documented and poor neighbourhoods have been
extensively researched.
However, other spaces have been
re-imagined in different ways by politicians, academics, journalists and
social reformers. These imagined geographies include exoticised slums,
cities being reclaimed by nature, the street and domestic spaces like
the kitchen, or even the bedroom. In Their Place highlights how these
spaces are represented and how these representations are deployed,
manipulating political and media discourses around the individuals and
communities who live there.
These distortions are often used to
keep people in their place by making sure everyone knows where 'the
poor' belong. This book will reorient those interested in human
geography away from 'deprived neighbourhoods' and back to the
foundational spaces where political decisions - and poverty - are made
in Britain today.
In Their Place : The Imagined Geographies of Poverty - Stephen Crossley
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