Session Description: Geographers have long focused on the importance of space and how space is used as an arena to reaffirm cultural connections. As important as studies are that have emerged to show how space is used, it is also important to examine how space is delineated - according to the differences found in organizations, individuals, ideologies, and practices. These differences, rather than fusing together, can separate and splinter off geographical ideologies whether by choice or not. These types of distinctions can be created in many types of spaces, which are then expressed politically, socially and culturally, and have attached to them notions of appropriateness and transgression. These distinctions and their associated communications include dominant and subversive uses of spaces ranging from policy construction to protests to everyday inequalities and struggles. Following this rich development within the discipline, this session aims to explore spaces of difference and illustrate why difference continues to be an important concept for geographers.
