Valentine, G. orcid.org/0000-0002-9103-9415, Piekut, A. orcid.org/0000-0002-3478-0354 and Harris, C. (2015) Intimate encounters: the negotiation of difference within the family and its implications for social relations in public space. The Geographical Journal, 181 (3). pp. 280-294. ISSN 0016-7398
Abstract
This paper focuses on the neglected issue of encounters with difference within the context of family life at a moment in time when families are increasingly characterised by dissimilarity as a product of mobility and individualisation. The study upon which this paper is based involved both a survey of social attitudes (survey n = 3021) and qualitative multi-stage research (n = 60). The evidence of the findings is that intra-familial diversity does produce more positive attitudes in public life towards the specific social group that an individual family member is perceived to represent. However, such positive attitudes are not translated beyond this specific ‘difference’ to challenge wider prejudices towards other groups. As such, this research contributes to literatures on geographies of encounter and the geographies of family life by exposing the limits of intimate contact with difference in changing the way social relationships are lived in the wider world.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 The Authors. The Geographical Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. |
Keywords: | family; encounter; difference; intimacy; prejudice; contact |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL LIVE DIFFERENCE - 249658 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 01 Aug 2016 08:35 |
Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2016 08:35 |
Published Version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12095 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/geoj.12095 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:80911 |