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Space, Place, and Violence: Violence and the Embodied Geographies of Race, Sex and Gender

by James A. Tyner - £35.99  Taylor & Francis Ltd (Routledge) (2011)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780415880855 | ISBN 10: 0415880858

Direct, interpersonal violence is a pervasive, yet often mundane feature of our day-to-day lives; paradoxically, violence is both ordinary and extraordinary. Violence, in other words, is often hidden in plain sight.
 
Space, Place, and Violence seeks to uncover that which is too apparent: to critically question both violent geographies and the geographies of violence. With a focus on direct violence, this book situates violent acts within the context of broader political and structural conditions. Violence, it is argued, is both a social and spatial practice.
 
Adopting a geographic perspective, Space, Place, and Violence provides a critical reading of how violence takes place and also produces place. Specifically, four spatial vignettes – home, school, streets, and community – are introduced, designed so that students may think critically how ‘race’, sex, gender, and class inform violent geographies and geographies of violence.

(Price & availability last checked: July 2019)