Towards a Spatial Social Policy: Bridging the Gap Between Geography and Social Policy
Adam Whitworth
Abstract
The motivation of this edited collection is to shine a light on the fertile, multi-faceted yet largely unexplored links between the concepts, perspectives, knowledges and methodological approaches of human geography and their contributions for what remains a largely aspatial social policy discipline and set of applied policy practices. With contributions from leading experts across the geography-policy divide this edited collection offer a range of original cutting-edge perspectives on the neglected and misunderstood spatialities of social policy thinking and their implications for both its sc ... More
The motivation of this edited collection is to shine a light on the fertile, multi-faceted yet largely unexplored links between the concepts, perspectives, knowledges and methodological approaches of human geography and their contributions for what remains a largely aspatial social policy discipline and set of applied policy practices. With contributions from leading experts across the geography-policy divide this edited collection offer a range of original cutting-edge perspectives on the neglected and misunderstood spatialities of social policy thinking and their implications for both its scholarship and applied practice.
Keywords:
human geography,
social policy,
public policy,
applied human geography,
spatial social policy
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447337904 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2020 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447337904.001.0001 |
