Books in the Gender, Space and Society series

Masculinities and Place brings together an impressive range of high-profile and emerging researchers to consolidate and expand new domains of interest in the geographies of men and masculinities. It is structured around key and emerging themes within recently completed and on-going research about the intersections between men.

Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity by looking at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi.

Grounded with series of globally diverse case studies that traverse time as well as space, this book deals with the borders of geopolitical thought and practice by navigating four corporeally-aware objects of analysis, namely flesh, bone, touch and abhorrence.