Joseph KK Ho's work diary

MBA Research Methods class e-resources 2016 February 1. Literature review 2. Research methods 3. Dissertation writings 4. Local teacher's works

To review the following statements: HI class discussion - lecture 3 1. "The material structure of a place is often the result of decisions made by the powerful to serve their ends...". 2. "All of these [decisions] involve choices that  exclude people and the meanings they represent.". 3. To the feminist geographers home frequently features as a site of patriarchal authority often associated with extremes of abuse, boredom, and backbreaking labor. 4. Home as a place is symptomatic of the ways in which the social production of place as a site of belonging can reinforce social relations of systematically asymmetrical power relations. 5. "It is this very commonsense nature of place-based norms that make them so powerful an ideological tool.". 6. This process of identifying how normative constructions of place exclude 'others' both physically and existentially has been identified across a whole  range of identities including class, sexuality