Introduction

Vincent J. Del Casino; Mary E. Thomas; Paul Cloke; Ruth Panelli

doi:10.1002/9781444395211.ch1

Introduction

Vincent J. Del Casino, Mary E. Thomas, Paul Cloke, Ruth Panelli

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Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	A Companion to Social Geography
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9781405189774
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395211.ch1
State	Published - Apr 20 2011

Keywords

American economic and military hegemony - going unquestioned, what the world needs to cure itself of illness, poverty, environmental degradation and hunger
Changing inequities of world, redefinition of how life - itself is defined and valued
Global attention, assent of a black man - to the "most powerful position in the world," for those living in racist and disempowered America
Identifying United States, for its many behaviors - condemning the world's poor, as the 2010 Conservative victory in the United Kingdom
Mapping A Companion to Social Geography - differences and inequalities shaping societies, and everyday lives, and intellectual mechanisms.
President Obama's call for change - confronting George W. Bush's policies of direct and egoistic disregard for life, beyond a simplistic worldview
Questioning the normative, Obama's "we" - an imagined community, polarities of rich and poor, young and old, party politics, inability of a national geography
Representational power of Obama, as President - largely failing to connect with wider progressive messaging
Social geography, a broad field - attending to socio-spatial differences, power relations and inequalities shaping people's life
Space and social difference, spatial contingencies - framing real and possible social life

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General Social Sciences

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