Phobic Geographies: The Phenomenology and Spatiality of Identity [Hardcover]

Joyce Davidson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 075463244X | ISBN-13: 978-0754632443 | Publication Date: October 2003

Despite estimates that there are 10 million people in the UK suffering from phobias, there is a substantial and conspicuous gap in existing academic literature and research on this topic. This book addresses this gap in relation to geography literature, but also extends beyond this field to connect with a wide range of academics, health professionals and phobic "others" whose ideas are (re)formed by fear. In doing so, it provides non-clinical, specifically geographical insights into phobia, of relevance for its sufferers, and expands human geographical understandings of the relations between gender, embodiment, space and mental health, via a study of agoraphobia. This book argues that a critical geographic perspective is better placed to take account of the importance of wider social contexts and relations, and can give a fully spatialised account of the disorder more faithful to the way sufferers actually describe their experiences. By drawing attention to some of the more unusual ways that people relate to each other, and to their environments, we can illuminate some ordinarily taken for granted aspects of personal geographies.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 166 pages
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 075463244X
• ISBN-13: 978-0754632443
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,103,859 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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