In Their Place - The Imagined Geographies of Poverty

He alleged failings of low-income neighborhoods attracts a great deal of academic and political scrutiny and research. However, the realities of localized spaces-such as family home front doors, bedrooms, street corners, and local schools-have not received nearly as much attention. With In Their Place, Stephen Crossley highlights how these spaces are represented from afar by politicians who exaggerate stories for political gain and how these fabrications actively manipulate media coverage of these British individuals and communities. A devastating critique of the Conservative government's approach to tackling inequality, In Their Place will reorient those interested in human geography away from the large scale transnational policies back to the physical spaces that show the realities of life for Britain's low-income neighborhoods. --

About the author

Stephen Crossley is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Northumbria University. He previously worked on a regional child poverty project in the North East of England and has also worked in local government and with local voluntary sector organisations in neighbourhood youth work and community development roles. He is the author of In Their Place: The Imagined Geographies of Poverty (Pluto, 2017).

Summary

A radical geography of the representation of impoverished communities in Britain.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Crossley, Crossley Stephen
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780745336794
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3679-4
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Radical Geography; Radical Geography
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Social Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Poverty & unemployment, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social discrimination & inequality, Political Geography, Human Geography, Sociology: work and labour, Poverty and precarity, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, For higher / tertiary / university education