A Companion to Social GeographyISBN: 978-1-4051-8977-4
Hardcover
568 pages
May 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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Mary E. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Geography and
Women's Studies at Ohio State University. Her research examines
racial segregation among US youth populations and the perpetuation
of racism, sexism, and white hegemony in the practices of young
women. Her book on teen girls, racial segregation, and urban
education in Los Angeles, California is forthcoming.
Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography at the University
of Exeter. He has published widely on the social and cultural
geographies of rural areas, and is Founder Editor of the Journal
of Rural Studies. His recent books include Swept Up Lives?
Re-envisioning the Homeless City (with Jon May and Sarah
Johnsen, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Globalizing Responsibility:
The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption (with Clive
Barnett, Nick Clarke, and Alice Malpass, Wiley-Blackwell,
2011).
Ruth Panelli is former Reader in Human Geography at University College London and is now participating in community work and research in rural New Zealand. She has published writings on responses to individual and collective experiences of difference and her books include Social Geographies: From Difference to Action (2004) and Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth (ed. with Samantha Punch and Elsbeth Robson, 2007).