In Their Place

The Imagined Geographies of Poverty

Stephen Crossley

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English

Pluto Press
20 August 2017

Poverty & unemployment; Social discrimination; Human geography

Series: Radical Geography

This book critiques how impoverished communities are represented by politicians, the media, academics and policy makers - and how our understanding of these neighbourhoods is, often misleadingly, shaped by these stories.

The alleged behavioural failings of 'poor people' have attracted a great deal of academic and political scrutiny. Spatial inequalities are also well documented and poor neighbourhoods have been extensively researched. However, other spaces have been re-imagined in different ways by politicians, academics, journalists and social reformers. These imagined geographies include exoticised slums, cities being reclaimed by nature, the street and domestic spaces like the kitchen, or even the bedroom.

In Their Place highlights how these spaces are represented and how these representations are deployed, manipulating political and media discourses around the individuals and communities who live there. These distortions are often used to keep people in their place by making sure everyone knows where 'the poor' belong. This book will reorient those interested in human geography away from 'deprived neighbourhoods' and back to the foundational spaces where political decisions - and poverty - are made in Britain today.

By: Stephen Crossley
Imprint: Pluto Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 135mm,
Weight: 226g
ISBN: 9780745336794
ISBN 10: 0745336795
Series: Radical Geography
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 20 August 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Series Preface 1. Introduction: The Spaces of Others 2. Swamps and Slums: Exoticising the Poor 3. Tales of Two Cities 4. Neighbourhood Effects or Westminster Effects? 5. Streetwise? 6. The Heroic Simplification of the Household 7. Piles of Pringles and Crack: Behind Closed Doors 8. Less Public, More Private: The Shifting Spaces of the State 9. Studying Up Notes Index

Stephen Crossley is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Northumbria University. He previously worked on a regional child poverty project in the North East of England and has also worked in local government and with local voluntary sector organisations in neighbourhood youth work and community development roles. He is the author of In Their Place: The Imagined Geographies of Poverty (Pluto, 2017).

Reviews for In Their Place: The Imagined Geographies of Poverty

'Poverty is such a strong word and is not used as much as it needs to be. I am very grateful that this book does not shy away from those difficult words and also those difficult converstaions about poverty in Britain today.' -- Lisa Mckenzie, author of Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain