Elite Spaces (Social Prestige, Spatial Obscurity, Political Risk)

Elite Spaces highlights the ways in which space is vital to the social identity and political power of elites. In a unique analysis of the role of physical and symbolic spaces in fabricating, reproducing and consecrating society’s elites, leading experts provide cutting-edge forays into the neighbourhoods, schools, clubs and other settings that form the enclosed life-worlds of the privileged and influential around the world. Each study reveals the inner workings of power formation, spatial segregation and social privilege as well as the class and mobility networks of elites. This book is an essential read for social scientists and students in sociology, geography, business and management, and for general readers interested in how elite spaces shape the management and governance of society.