GEOG101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Public Space, Intersectionality, Ageism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Geography and Environmental Management
• Course: GEOG101
• Professor: Nancy Worth

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An approach to analyzing the relationship between society/social relations and space. Society; identifiable social group produced by some sameness in identity. Groups are identifiable as societies (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause there is a se(cid:374)se of (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:862)differe(cid:374)t(cid:863) Identity; formed in relation to other people/objects, thought as socially constructed (rather than natural) Identities can be classed into dfferent social categories (social identities) such as; ethnicity/race, class (cid:894)e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272)(cid:895), ge(cid:374)der, se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455), age, disa(cid:271)ilit(cid:455), religio(cid:374) . This establishes who we are and how we identify in these traits. Diagram in where gender is interpreted by many things such as. Difference; conceived in relation to the position of the observer. Co(cid:374)stru(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of the (cid:862)other(cid:863); a (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)ept of ideas a(cid:271)out differe(cid:374)(cid:272)e. This is where racism, homophobia, misogyny and class contempt come from. Simplified; where people live in terms of ethnicity and economic stats. But people do(cid:374)"t just affe(cid:272)t spa(cid:272)e. pa(cid:272)e affe(cid:272)ts (cid:449)here people li(cid:448)e too.