GGRB13H3 Study Guide - Disneyfication, Commuter Town, Harm Reduction
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In every story of violence we hear or participate in, either as victims or as perpetrators, we need to be aware of spatiality of that violence, and its relationship to identity and law. Unmapping stories or geographies of violence means denaturalizing the spaces and bodies in these stories. Respectability versus degeneracy in the making of self. Degenerates as the enemy of the nation and of the society at large. The bourgeois life of the home and its dwellers constituted respectability . Degenerates : subordinated (includes people of colour, prostitutes, alcoholics, mentally ill, disabled, poor, homosexuals, transgendered, and non christians) Women constituted the making of respectable vs. degenerate. To unmap, one must historicize, a process that begins by asking about the relationship between identity and space. Richard phillips (1997) examining a british victorian juvenile adventure literature argues that the nature of spaces-real and imaginative, material, or metaphorical- make a difference tot the nature of hegemonic identities .
