GPHY 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Exclusion, Gentrification, Social Forces

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 227
• Professor: Betsy J Donald

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Lack of public toilets in mumbai (means they experience the city differently). Message: different experiences of city; uneven structural differences within cities (quote from p166-167!!!) Learning outcomes: examine how identity shapes experiences in the city, understand how identity and space are connected, ead (cid:272)h(cid:1012) i(cid:374) jmt, ideall(cid:455) also cathe(cid:396)i(cid:374)e nash(cid:859)s to(cid:396)o(cid:374)to(cid:859)s ga(cid:455) (cid:448)illage pape(cid:396). Recommended: ch22 on gender, sexuality and the [canadian] city in ccit book. Different ways of seeing the world by urban geographers (theoretical approaches: post-structuralism is the focus today, example: changing ideas of lgbtq ide(cid:374)tities (cid:449)ith (cid:396)efe(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e to to(cid:396)o(cid:374)to(cid:859)s ga(cid:455) (cid:448)illage. Post-modernism rejects grand theory (popular in 1980s/90s: post-structuralism was one theory within post-modernism. More precise term; associated with french theorists like foucault and derrida; how are knowledges constructed. Post structural propositions: identity: eje(cid:272)ts that k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge is (cid:858)o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:859, rejects universal and unchanging human essence [e. g. masculinity ideas changed] Identity is constantly contested and subject to change and revision: subjects resist, alter or acquiesce to meanings of identity.