GEOG 2P01 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Geography, Panopticon, Cultural Capital
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Intellectual traditions: 1950s and 1960s- patterns and mapping, 1970s and 1980s- critiques of social categories", contemporary- intersections between social categories and place. Meanings of the body": the geography closest in, boundary between self/world, natural vs. social. Individual vs. social regulation: body in place, bodies and experience of place. Mind/body dualism: descartes and cartesian dualism, gendering of mind" and body", constitution of knowledge as embodied" and situated". Natural and the social: nature and bodily difference (e. g. race, essentialist" arguments- biology is destiny. Why does it matter: power relations and social organization, social justice. Body as a space: bourdieu, foucault, bourdieu. It is a surface which is marked and transformed by culture. Concerned with class: social/material location, habitus behaviour and class, taste, social and cultural capital b. foucault, bio power , panopticon, normal social life activities. The body as a project the individual body (contemporary: surface of the body as symbol of the self, aspect of surveillance.