GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Urban Ecology, Socioeconomic Status, Intersectionality

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG101
• Professor: Amanda Hooykaas

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Difference: types of social categories/difference influencing social relations include, gender, age, socio-economic status (class, ethnicity (race, ethnicity is common nationality, race is biological category, no biological basis, religion, sexuality, disability, genderbread person, moving past binary, more dynamic. Identity in general: perso(cid:374)"s li(cid:448)ed e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e, how identity is connected to space and society. Difference and power: difference usually conceived in relation to the position of the observer (i. e. relational, thinking about difference by what we are not. Initially space seen as an objective physical surface upon which social identities could be mapped (urban ecology) Issue: over-simplifies society and space: spatial construction of society, how do spatial arrangements contribute to the construction and reproduction of social identities, examples, ge(cid:374)der: (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess to (cid:449)ork (cid:862)ra(cid:272)e(cid:863): (cid:374)eigh(cid:271)ourhoods a(cid:374)d life (cid:272)ha(cid:374)(cid:272)es, e. g. Whether you will pass high school: geographies of placement can reinforce social inequalities (smith, 1993) Society and space: space now understood as playing an active role; identities and spaces are mutually constitutive (rose, 1995)