SOCI 3810 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reverse Discrimination, Intersectionality

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 3810
• Professor: Carmela Murdocca

Document Summary

Vera chouinard: critical social and feminist geographer with interests in issues of social marginalization, state policy, and struggles for social change. Socio-spatial marginalization: space and social control, freedom in space is __________, what is the relationship between space and difference, how does space produce or reproduce exclusion, experiences of difference, social hierarchies, etc, literal space vs. figurative space. Human rights origins: with the development of the west, post 2nd world war (ideas countered those of racism and fascism, rights individual is a commodity owner. Ideal: absolute qualities or precessions of human beings but, hr discourse is embedded in contested ideologies related to the development, capitalism: developmental discourse and human rights discourse became mutually. Having innate: children struggle to get rights. Why: racial minorities struggle to get rights. Why: disabled people struggle to get rights. And who does not: housing, law and courts, law income, public transportation, workplace, space and social life are mutually constitutive.