The Power of Geography

Part 1 Introduction and overview: how territory shapes social life, Michael J.Dear and Jennifer R. Wolch. Part 2 Industrialism, the state and civil society: the geographical foundations and social regulation of flexible production complexes, Michael Storper and Allen J.Scott; collective consumption, Steven Pinch; the politics of turf and the question of class, Kevin R.Cox. Part 3 Industrial society: class and gender relations in the local labour market and local state, Ruth Fincher; a feminist perspective on employment and gentrification - the case of Montreal, Damaris Rose; the mobility of capital and the immobility of female labour - responses to economic restructuring, Gerda R.Wekerle and Brent Rutherford. Part 4 The state: interpretive practices, the state and the locale, Nicholas K.Blomley; the shadow state - transformations in the voluntary sector, Jennifer R.Wolch; social reproduction and housing alternatives - co-operative housing in post-war Canada, Vera Chouinard; privatization and dependency on the local welfare state, Glenda Laws; the organization of space in 19th century lunatic asylums, Chris Philo. Part 5 Civil society: incorporation theory and the reproduction of community fabric, Geraldine Pratt; community exclusion of the mentally ill, S.Martin Taylor; mirrors of power - reflective professionals in the neighbourhood, Dana Cuff; the grassroots in action - gays and seniors capture the local state in West Hollywood, California, Adam Moos; disability and the reproduction of bodily images - the dynamics of human appearances, Harian Hahn.