CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Masculinity, Labour Power, Planned Community
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Brief history of social geography race, class, gender. Spatial order and the mapping of patterns & problems. Mcdowell on gendered and sexualised bodies in the city. Structural approaches class, patriarchy, racism: class marx and weber; gentrification debates. Gender & patriarchy mcdowell on the making of gendered urban space. Race & racism sibley on traveller communities. Feudal societies: people were members of the peasantry or the nobility. Capitalist societies people described as members of the working class, middle class, upper class or ruling class: classical definitions of class marx and weber. Capitalists (who own the means of production) Labourers (who sell their labour power to the capitalists to maintain themselves: class was relational emerged out of the struggle (by e. g. capitalists) to control the product/labour of other groups (e. g. workers) Class relations are about struggle struggle for capitalists to control the workers (proletariat: capitalists depend on labourers to sell them enough of their labour power to generate surplus value.
