Society, Space, and Social Justice - Geographies of Intersectionality

In Society, Space, and Social Justice, Jennifer Pomeroy and Vandana Wadhwa investigate overt and covert social inequalities and social injustice issues across various geographic settings and scales as globalization continues to (re)construct society and its structures and spaces.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I - Emerging and Continuing Spaces of Social Injustice
Chapter 1: Community Starts at Home: Toward Equitable Housing for People with Disabilities
Andrew Myers, Lillie Greiman, Brendan Hogg, Rayna Sage, Craig Ravesloot
Chapter 2: Environmental Justice and Outdoor Spaces: Structural Racism's Persistence, and the Dynamics of Change
Yonit Yogev
Chapter 3: Subversion of Gender Justice: Public Policy on Sri Lankan Migrant Housemaids
Vidyamali Samarasinghe
Chapter 4: Territorialization of Violence: Temporality and Scale: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Mumbai, India, in the Mid-1990s
Emmanuel Eliot
Chapter 5: A Woman's Place: Examining Perceptions of Urban Social Space in India
Vandana Wadhwa and Jennifer Y. Pomeroy

Part II - Structural Approaches to Social Justice
Chapter 6: Intersectional Organizing as an Approach to Social Justice: Lessons from Brazil's Domestic Workers' Movement
Caitlin M. Alcorn
Chapter 7: Freedom, Justice and Space: Infrastructure as a Driver of Spatial Justice?
Luis Emilio Cecchi
Chapter 8: AIDS and Aid in Uganda: PEPFAR-Social Justice or Structural Violence?
Vandana Wadhwa and Poojitha Kondabolu

Conclusion: Reflections on 'Tranquil Waters'
Index
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Jennifer Y. Pomeroy and Vandana Wadhwa - Contributions by Caitlin M. Alcorn; Luis Emilio Cecchi; Emmanuel Eliot; Lillie Greiman; Poojitha Kondabolu; Craig Ravesloot; Rayna Sage; Vidyamali Samarasinghe and Yonit Yogev

Summary

Society, Space, and Social Justice investigates overt and covert social inequalities and social injustice issues across various geographic settings and scales as globalization continues to (re)construct society its structures and spaces. The examination is coupled with the identifying resistance and approaches toward a more just world.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Wadhwa Pomeroy, Jennifer Y. Wadhwa Pomeroy
• Assisted by: Jennifer Pomeroy (Editor), Jennifer Y. Pomeroy (Editor), Vandana Wadhwa (Editor), Wadhwa Vandana (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781498594806
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9480-6
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social discrimination & inequality, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Social discrimination and social justice