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GEOG 347: Geographies of Class II. "Utopias of both social control and emancipation have tried to restructure the dispersion of bodies in space in order to achieve certain social and political effects." -Margaret Kohn, p.88. Kohn (2006) Radical Space: Building the House of the People.
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GEOG 347: Geographies of Class II "Utopias of both social control and emancipation have tried to restructure the dispersion of bodies in space in order to achieve certain social and political effects." -Margaret Kohn, p.88
Kohn (2006) Radical Space: Building the House of the People • Lefebvre- Space is social. Particular places can initiate, maintain, frame, or interrupt contact between people. Permits/suggests/ prohibits certain actions. • Dominated space (technological realizations of projects of masters) vs. • Appropriated space (modified to serve human needs)
Kohn (2006) Radical Space: Building the House of the People • Foucault- heterotopias: "spaces in which social arrangements are represented, challenged, and overturned: places that lie outside all places and yet are actually localizable." • Crisis heterotopias: temporary sites of transition • Heterotopias of deviance: sites of policing, disciplining, segregating by normality and abnormality • Heterotopias of resistance: function to transform society rather than escape or segregate
Kohn (2006) Radical Space: Building the House of the People Panopticon
Conceptualizing Class Structure capitalist class middle class working class 1. poor/middle/rich 2. rich/ professional middle/ working class /poor 3.
Conceptualizing Class Structure Class as defined by Self-Identification, 1998 Lower Class 5% Working Class 45% Middle Class 46% Upper Class 4% Source: Metzgar, J. "Politics and the American Class Vernacular" in Russo and Linkon, eds. New Working Class Studies. p. 204
Conceptualizing Class Structure Class as defined by Education, 2000 Bachelor's Degree 26% Less than Bachelor's Degree 74% Source: Metzgar, J. "Politics and the American Class Vernacular" in Russo and Linkon, eds. New Working Class Studies. p. 201
Conceptualizing Class Structure Class as defined by Occupation, 2000 Managerial and Professional 30% Working Class 70% Source: Metzgar, J. "Politics and the American Class Vernacular" in Russo and Linkon, eds. New Working Class Studies. p. 201