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“Welfare geography emphasizes spatial inequality and territorial justice.” Comment with reference to the main ideas and scope of the subfield.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

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Welfare geography is the branch of human geography that takes as its object not the location of activity but the territorial distribution of human well-being — who receives the goods and bads of social life, in what quantity, in which place, and through what institutional process; it was given systematic form by David M. Smith…

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  • The Organising Question: "Who Gets What, Where, and How" — Smith's Reframing of the Discipline
  • Main Idea One — Spatial Inequality: Well-Being as a Territorially Variable Condition
  • The Measurement Apparatus: Territorial Social Indicators and Inequality Techniques
  • Main Idea Two — Territorial Justice: Provision Proportioned to Need
  • The Scope of the Subfield: Themes, Scales, Methods and the Normative Ladder
  • Critique: What the Maps Reveal and What They Conceal
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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