Race and Space - 9781801177252

Race and SpaceContesting Boundaries and Inequities\nAuthor(s): Lisa Leitz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Emerald Publishing Limited\nISBN-13: 9781801177252, 978-1801177252\nSynopsis\nThe 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests highlighted with sharp clarity the role of race in social conflict and social movements. Building on more than a century of political and sociological scholarship, Race and Space considers the connections between race as a descriptor of physical differences between humans and space as a geographic location, and their subsequent impact on the human experience.\n\nThe chapters address racialized issues spanning from how the characteristics of our community shape whether we experience police or immigrant violence, whether first-hand experience (or lack thereof) of this violence is likely to shape ones choice to engage in ethno-racial justice activism, to analysing how the space of the prison shapes ones sense of s.