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Exploring Utopias: Class Structure and Spatial Dynamics in Society

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This text analyzes the role of space in shaping social and political structures, drawing from the insights of Margaret Kohn, Henri Lefebvre, and Michel Foucault. It examines the concept of "radical space" and how utopias—both controlling and emancipatory—reshape the spatial distribution of bodies to create specific societal impacts. Furthermore, it discusses Kohn's ideas on appropriated versus dominated spaces and introduces Foucault's notion of heterotopias, including crisis and resistance heterotopias. The text also delves into class structure categorization, highlighting the complexities of social stratification.

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Exploring Utopias: Class Structure and Spatial Dynamics in Society

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  1. GEOG 347: Geographies of Class II "Utopias of both social control and emancipation have tried to restructure the dispersion of bodies in space in order to achieve certain social and political effects." -Margaret Kohn, p.88

  2. Kohn (2006) Radical Space: Building the House of the People • Lefebvre- Space is social. Particular places can initiate, maintain, frame, or interrupt contact between people. Permits/suggests/ prohibits certain actions. • Dominated space (technological realizations of projects of masters) vs. • Appropriated space (modified to serve human needs)

  3. Kohn (2006) Radical Space: Building the House of the People • Foucault- heterotopias: "spaces in which social arrangements are represented, challenged, and overturned: places that lie outside all places and yet are actually localizable." • Crisis heterotopias: temporary sites of transition • Heterotopias of deviance: sites of policing, disciplining, segregating by normality and abnormality • Heterotopias of resistance: function to transform society rather than escape or segregate

  4. Kohn (2006) Radical Space: Building the House of the People Panopticon

  5. Kohn (2006) Radical Space: Building the House of the People

  6. Conceptualizing Class Structure capitalist class middle class working class 1. poor/middle/rich 2. rich/ professional middle/ working class /poor 3.

  7. Conceptualizing Class Structure Class as defined by Self-Identification, 1998 Lower Class 5% Working Class 45% Middle Class 46% Upper Class 4% Source: Metzgar, J. "Politics and the American Class Vernacular" in Russo and Linkon, eds. New Working Class Studies. p. 204

  8. Conceptualizing Class Structure Class as defined by Education, 2000 Bachelor's Degree 26% Less than Bachelor's Degree 74% Source: Metzgar, J. "Politics and the American Class Vernacular" in Russo and Linkon, eds. New Working Class Studies. p. 201

  9. Conceptualizing Class Structure Class as defined by Occupation, 2000 Managerial and Professional 30% Working Class 70% Source: Metzgar, J. "Politics and the American Class Vernacular" in Russo and Linkon, eds. New Working Class Studies. p. 201

  10. Conceptualizing Class Structure

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