GEOG 2P01 Lecture 3: GEOG 2P01 Lecture 3
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The study of patterns arising from the use of which social groups make of space (as they see it), with the processes which underlie these patterns, and the lives and communities that evolve from them. Processes underlying patterns: economic, political and social, overlapping groups, resistance how do people take up space to resist dominant culture, the lives and communities which evolve, socio-spatial connections, social-operations in space, developing group culture. A situation in which certain members of a society are, or become, separated from much that compromises the normal round" of living and working within that society. Social justice: hierarchies and power relations, privilege and oppression. Theory of social justice: a theory about the kind of social arrangements that can be defended. Argument: people, social categories and social relations are constituted in and through engaging in certain spaces and space and place are shaped so as to enable and constrain social relations.