Space and Society. This book focuses on eight spatial scales body, home, community, institutions, the street, the city, rural and nation. Each of these spaces represents the intersection of a range of connections, interrelations and movements of different people who have very different ways of participating in, understanding or belonging to them. Each chapter therefore explores how social identities gender, race, class, sexuality and relations are constructed in, and through these spaces, and how the meanings and uses of these spaces are contested by their different occupants. Questions of homogeneity and difference, control and
