Social Geography: A Critical Introduction

Introducing the debates that inform current social geographic research and theory and interrogating the historical development of social geography, Social Geography: A Critical Introduction explores how urban and rural spaces are organized in ways that construct and maintain social inequality. This work: introduces students to the debates informing social geography; puts into context the assumptions of various strains of social geographic thought as they have developed historically; assists students in addressing key social geographic questions and methodologies; provides a showcase for cutting edge work in the field; and, is written in an accessible and lively style, setting out a wide breadth of social geographic research.