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How Are Social Inequalities Experienced, Reproduced And Challenged In Local, Global And Transnational Spaces? What Role Does The Control Of Space Play In Distribution Of Crucial Resources And Forms Of Capital (housing, Education, Pleasure, Leisure, Social Relationships)? The Case Studies In Geographies Of Privilege Demonstrate How Power Operates And Is Activated Within Local, National, And Global Networks. Twine And Gardener Have Put Together A Collection That Analyzes How The Centrality Of Spaces (domestic, Institutional, Leisure, Educational) Are Central To The Production, Maintenance And Transformation Of Inequalities. The Collected Readings Show How Power--in The Form Of Economic, Social, Symbolic, And Cultural Capital--is Employed And Experienced. The Volume's Contributors Take The Reader To Diverse Sites, Including Brothels, Blues Clubs, Dance Clubs, Elite Schools, Detention Centers, Advocacy Organizations, And Public Sidewalks In Canada, Italy, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Mozambique, South Africa, And The United States. Geographies Of Privilege Is The Perfect Teaching Tool For Courses On Social Problems, Race, Class And Gender In Geography, Sociology And Anthropology. Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Donald Martin Carter And Heather Merrill -- Introduction / France Winddance Twine And Bradley Gardener -- Pleasure And Leisure Spaces: Sex, Music And Privileged Bodies -- The Geography Of Sex Work In The United Arab Emirates / Pardis Mahdavi -- Dis-placing Place Identity: Introducing An Analytics Of Participation / Kevin Durrheim, Clinton Rautenbach, Tamaryn Nicholson And John Dixon -- Chicago's Southside Bluescapes: Creeping Commodification And Complex Human Responses / David Wilson -- Race, Space And Privileged Migrants: Africans, Europeans And Post-apartheid -- Landscaping Privilege: Being British In South Africa / Pauline Leonard -- The Visa Whiteness Machine: Transnational Mobility In Post-apartheid South Africa / Max Andrucki -- Who Gets To Be Italian?: Black Life Worlds And White Imaginaries / Heather Merrill -- Human Blacklisting: The Global Apartheid Of The Eu External Border Regime / Henk Van Houtum -- Unstable Privileges: Race, Class, And Advocacy Organizations -- Downward Mobility And Swedish Whiteness In Southern Spain / Catrin Lundström -- Welfare-dependent Women And The Market Value Of Whiteness In Boston / Melissa Macdonald And France Winddance Twine -- From Racial Discrimination To Class Segregation In Maputo, Mozambique / David Morton -- Unsettling The Privilege Of Self-reflexivity / Andrea Smith -- Gendered Spaces -- Islamophobia, Gendered Vulnerabilities And Muslim American Civil Rights Advocacy / Erik Love -- Masculine Privilege: The Culture Of Bullying At An Elite Private School / Brett Stoudt -- Bodies Of Privilege And Zones Of Exclusion / Nancy Hansen And Hazel Mcfarlane -- About The Contributors. France Winddance Twine And Bradley Gardener. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.