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

Jennifer Y. Pomeroy is assistant professor of geography in the Department of History and Political Science at York College of Pennsylvania.

Vandana Wadhwa is founder and CEO of Meridian R&C LLC.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jennifer Y. Pomeroy (Editor), Wadhwa Vandana (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.03.2023
• EAN: 9781498594820
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9482-0
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 228 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 349 g
• Illustrations: 8 BW Illustrations, 4 Tables
• Subjects: 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