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"Fitting into Place" adopts a multi-dimensional interdisciplinary approach to explore shifting geographies and temporalities that re-constitute 'city publics' - and the place of the 'public sociologist'. Class, race and gender (dis)advantages are situated in relation to urban-rural contrasts, where 'future selves' are reconfigured in and through 'local' and 'global' sites: people inhabit shifting times and places, from industrial landscapes of the 'past', to a current present and (imagined) 'cosmopolitan' 'regenerated' future. The rhetorics and vocabularies of place, as affective and material, suggest a more complex 'fit' than the language of masculine 'crisis' for past-times, or 'feminised' fit into new-futures, suggests. Across the generations, women's labour is still effaced as maps of loyalty hold up families as reference points of belonging and 'fitting in'; such architecture of place complicates reified 'geographies of choice' which centre a middle-class mobile subject. Based upon funded empirical research, this book will be of interest to sociologists and geographers.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Fitting into Place?
• Subtitle: Class and Gender Geographies and Temporalities
• Author: Yvette Taylor
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 208
• EAN: 9780754679226
• ISBN: 0754679225
• ID: 04681943
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 518 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 161 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. March 2012

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