Vincent J. Del Casino Jr is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Geography, California State University, Long Beach. He is Book Review Editor of the journal Social and Cultural Geography and has published numerous articles and co-edited the book Mapping Tourism (with Stephen Hanna) (2003).

"By not taking the well-trodden route of segmenting discussions of social geographies of gender, race, age, sex and so on, Del Casino is breaking the mould. He is offering something far superior ... [and] very accessible and student friendly." (Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2012) "The Social Geography contribution to Wiley-Blackwell's Critical Introductions to Geography series is a thoroughly up-to-date examination of the field, considering difference and inequality through the history of the discipline before making use of an innovative life-course approach. Del Casino has a fluid and engaging style of writing, incorporating research from a wide selection of subfields in social geography, while also drawing connections and illustrating contrasts." (Area, 2011)

• List of Figures viiList of Tables viiiList of Boxes ixList of Abbreviations xiAcknowledgements xiiiCover Image xvIntroduction 1Part I Historicizing Social Geography: From Theory to Methodology 91 Social Geography? What’s That? 112 Social Geography in Three Acts and an Epilogue 293 Thinking Methodologically 63Part II Social Geographies across the Life Course 954 Social Geography and the Geographies of Health 975 Communities and Organizations 1256 Social Activism/Social Movements/Social Justice 154Part III Social Geographies through the Life Course 1837 On the Geographies of Children and Young People 1858 Social Geographies of the “Mid-Life”? 2119 Ageing and the “New” Social Geographies of Older People 238Part IV Conclusions 26510 Epilogue v. 2.0 26711 Rethinking the Social Geographies of Difference and Inequality 275References 282Index 311