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A Critical Agenda for Geographical Engagement With Contemporary Construction Industries

Bibliographic Data

ID3977273
AuthorsDaniel Sage (0000-0003-0797-3879, Loughborough University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume14
Issue2
Pages168-191
Publication date2013-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2012.737009
OpenAlexW1965258038
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited74

In this paper, I seek to develop a more direct, sustained and critical engagement between social and cultural geography and contemporary construction industries. In setting out this agenda, I focus on the UK construction industry and a body of work outside of geography describing how the UK construction industry evidences and maintains a problematic array of working practices that are socially consequential. However, despite such potent critiques, recent geographical work on architectural practices, including that focused on the UK, has remained rather detached from the people, places, politics, and indeed problems, of contemporary construction industries. Nevertheless, recent geographical studies of architectural practice possess a significant potential to directly inform critical analysis of construction industries. It is only through such direct engagement with the contemporary lives of building practitioners that I argue geographical studies of architecture, and especially architectural practices, can recognize and realize its political and ethical contribution

Built environment · Civil engineering · Construction industry · Economic geography · Environmental ethics · Geography · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Architecture

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