GEO 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5-6: Network Theory, Racialization, Materialism
13 Apr 2016
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Sexuality: set of practices and identities that a given culture considers related to each other and to those things it considers sexual acts and desires. Earliest and most effective examples of geographic study of sexuality is the examination of spatial expression of prostitution. Sex work is spatially differentiated based upon target clientele as well as systems of surveillance. More contemporary work is exploring spatial constraints of homosexuality and the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people respond to and reshape them. Ethnicity: socially created system of rules about who belongs to a particular group based upon actual or perceived commonalities, such as language and religion. Race: problematic classification of human beings based on skin color and other physical characteristics. Racialization: practice of creating unequal castes based on the norms of whiteness. Gender: category reflecting the social differences between men and women. Actor network theory: views the worlds as composed of heterogeneous things, including humans and nonhumans and objects.
