Spaces of Hate
Keys and a phone line today, these are signs of progress in the new office. Reading Spaces of Hate (Routledge 2004), an edited volume compiled by Colin Flit a geographer at Penn State. Looks promising.
From the dust jacket: "Though much as been written about hate and extreme right-wing groups in the United States, scant attention has been paid to the ways in which geography plays an active role in the formation of such groups. Hate, like all motivating forces in American society, always has a geographical component at its core -- a restricted space that locks out undesirable 'others.' Hate groups have always idealized exclusivist spaces, from an all-white South to cities rid of gays."
I'll post more about it as I go. At first glance, I see nothing in this volume related to cyberspace or the internet. I wonder how the ideas here about geography might be extrapolated for describing the way hate groups occupy space online.
From the dust jacket: "Though much as been written about hate and extreme right-wing groups in the United States, scant attention has been paid to the ways in which geography plays an active role in the formation of such groups. Hate, like all motivating forces in American society, always has a geographical component at its core -- a restricted space that locks out undesirable 'others.' Hate groups have always idealized exclusivist spaces, from an all-white South to cities rid of gays."
I'll post more about it as I go. At first glance, I see nothing in this volume related to cyberspace or the internet. I wonder how the ideas here about geography might be extrapolated for describing the way hate groups occupy space online.
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12:28 PM
