GGR313H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bell Hooks, Liberal Democracy, Market Economy
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Ggr313 lecture 3 (difference, exclusion, marginality otherness) (from the feminist glossary of human geography: difference refers to the relational production of meaning in terms of non-identification". Apple is not an orange and orange is not an apple. Difference now comes to mean not otherness, exclusive opposition, but specificity, variation, heterogeneity" (pg. 171: avoiding dualisms and essentialism; so that it"s not opposing or that there are essential differences between apple and orange or men and women, apple and orange are different, but they"re both fruits; not opposing. From a difference perspective we can see the city as heterogeneous: and gender in the city is also heterogeneous, different, legitimate feminist expressions, potential critique of difference: does difference lead to (social, political) fragmentation. If we"re all living together and in the same, there is no political conflicts so that means we won"t get anything done.
