Geographies of Privilege brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars with a worldwide focus to reveal the nature of privilege on a global scale. The chapters examine privilege through a relational lens by showing the tension that exists between privileged (elite) and unprivileged (degraded) spaces. By including of persons and groups that are negatively affected by privileged practice, this book makes privilege studies more accessible to students who do not feel privileged.

Introduction PART I: Pleasure and Leisure Spaces: Sex, Music and Privileged Bodies 1 The Geography of Sex Work in the United Arab Emirates 2 Dis-Placing place identity: introducing an analytics of participation 3 Chicago's Southside Bluescapes: Creeping Commodification and Complex Human Responses PART II: Race, Space and Privileged Migrants: Africans, Europeans and Post-Apartheid 4 Landscaping Privilege: Being British in South Africa 5 The Visa Whiteness Machine: Transnational Mobility in post-apartheid South Africa 6 Who Gets to Be Italian?: Black Life worlds and White Imaginaries 7 Human Blacklisting: the global apartheid of the EU external border regime PART III: Unstable Privileges: Race, Class, and Advocacy Organizations 8 Downward Mobility and Swedish Whiteness in Southern Spain 9 Welfare-Dependent Women and the Market Value of Whiteness in Boston 10 From Racial Discrimination to Class Segregation in Maputo, Mozambique 11 Unsettling the Privilege of Self-Reflexivity Part IV: Gendered Spaces 12 Islamophobia, Gendered Vulnerabilities and Muslim American Civil Rights Advocacy 13 Masculine Privilege: The Culture of Bullying at an Elite Private School 14 Bodies of Privilege and Zones of Exclusion.