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Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and increasingly now sexuality and disability, into separate chapters. This has the effect, firstly, of making social relations rather than space (the raison d'etre of human geography) the focus of undergraduate books; secondly of ignoring the way that social relations are negotiated and contested in different space. Rather than reproducing this conventional social geography format the aim of this proposed text is to make space the focus of analysis

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Childhood in Crisis? -- Chapter 2 Terror Talk: Geographies of Fear -- Chapter 3 Gender and Parenting Cultures -- Chapter 4 'I can handle it': Children and Competence -- Chapter 5 The Retreat from the Street -- Chapter 6 Contested Terrain: Teenagers in Public Space -- Chapter 7 Children and the Future of Public Space -- References -- Index.

In this article I draw on an approach - Actor Network Theory - which is well developed within the sociology of science and technology. However, rather than focusing on technical objects in the workplace, I examine food and drink as non-human entities which build, maintain and stabilize links between diverse actants. Using five case study examples I consider what happens when people come together at work around food, and the specific sets of relations between people, activity and organizations that result from this engagement. In doing so I focus on some of the processes through which working bodies are in-corporated into organizational life through emerging food practices; and highlight some of the processes through which working bodies are reconstituted as organizational food practices are in-corporated into the bodies of employees.

Front Cover; Climate Change Consumption and Intergenerational Justice; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of Figures and Photographs; Notes on the Authors; Acknowledgments; One Introduction; About INTERSECTION; Case studies; Fieldwork and focus of this book; Note on cross-cultural research; Two A Global and Intergenerational Storm; Introduction; Consumption and climate change; The global picture; Environmental justice and sustainability; An international and intergenerational injustice; The global storm; Regional risks; Complex geographies; Who is responsible?

As Tony Blair has said, ""Technology has revolutionised the way we work and is now set to transform education. Children cannot be effective in tomorrow's world if they are trained in yesterday's skills.""Cyberkids draws together research in the sociology of childhood and social studies of technology to explore children's experiences in the Information Age. The book addresses key policy debates about social inclusion and exclusion, children's identities and friendships in on-line and off-line worlds and their relationships with families and teachers. It counters contemporary moral panics about

Food occupies a seemingly mundane position in all our lives, yet the ways we think about shopping, cooking and eating are actually intensely reflexive. The daily pick and mix of our eating habits is one way we experience spatial scale. From the relationship of our food intake to our body-shape, to the impact of our tastes upon global food-production regimes, we all read food consumption as a practice which impacts on our sense of place.Drawing on anthropological, sociological and cultural readings of food consumption, as well as empirical material on shopping, cooking, food technology and the

This is the first book to explore sexualities from a geographical perspective. The nature of place and notions of space are of increasing centrality to cultural and social theory. Mapping Desire presents the rich and diverse world of contemporary sexuality, exploring how the heterosexual body has been appropriated and resisted on the individual, community and city scales. The geographies presented here range across Europe, America, Australasia, Africa, the Pacific and the imaginary, cutting across city and country and analysing the positions of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals. T