SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Welfare Fraud, Social Darwinism, Victim Blaming

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1375
• Professor: Kaura Kwak

Document Summary

Legal geography: regulation of public space professor kwak lecture: thinking through space as a social product law = social product and category, bringing other modes of analysis, we think of space as inhabitable. Blomley civil rights, civil engineering traffic logic: not about people but about traffic, who the public belongs to is designed by the law rights to space. Mosher construction of public v. private: public exists and private stable categories that is a problem, private = exclusion, notion of privacy is the ability to control your body. Norm of exclusion in constructing the public and private divide: employment relating to the person not the social structures. Criminalization of the poor: who has to move, who needs to use food banks or shelters, policies and laws shaping the landscape, how spaces evolve or shape due to who is deserving or non deserving. 1995 conservative government criminalized the poor, victim blaming, welfare recipents are dangerous or criminal.