The Geographical Thought Reader
Published on 15. August 2008
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-415-95262-0 (ISBN)
Description
Without social movements and wider struggles for progressive social change, the field of Geography would lack much of its contemporary relevance and vibrancy. Moreover, these struggles and the geographical scholarship that engages with them, have changed the philosophical underpinnings of the discipline and have inflected the quest for geographical knowledge with a sense not only of urgency but also hope. This reader, intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses in Geographic Thought, is at once an analysis of Geography's feedstock of progressive political struggles and a collection of more than two dozen examples of grounded engagements with those struggles.
The reader is composed of substantive introductory essays by the editors and unabridged published works by leading scholars whose work illustrates the tight connection between politics, social movements, and the development of social and geographical knowledge. Throughout different sections of the reader a wide array of topics is addressed: Why geographic thought is always political, how geographic knowledge is always steeped in moral and ethical claims, how oppression is recognizable, and how a politicized geography has been practiced by attaching itself to various struggles to claim or reframe rights, to seek social or environmental justice, or to outline new ethical ways of being.
The reader is unique not only in knowing Geographic Thought through its progressive political attachments, instead of through a series of abstract "isms", but in gathering together salient works by geographers as well as scholars in cognate fields, such as Nancy Fraser, Chantal Mouffe, Iris Marion Young, and Jack Kloppenberg, whose own engagements have proved lasting and influential.
The reader is composed of substantive introductory essays by the editors and unabridged published works by leading scholars whose work illustrates the tight connection between politics, social movements, and the development of social and geographical knowledge. Throughout different sections of the reader a wide array of topics is addressed: Why geographic thought is always political, how geographic knowledge is always steeped in moral and ethical claims, how oppression is recognizable, and how a politicized geography has been practiced by attaching itself to various struggles to claim or reframe rights, to seek social or environmental justice, or to outline new ethical ways of being.
The reader is unique not only in knowing Geographic Thought through its progressive political attachments, instead of through a series of abstract "isms", but in gathering together salient works by geographers as well as scholars in cognate fields, such as Nancy Fraser, Chantal Mouffe, Iris Marion Young, and Jack Kloppenberg, whose own engagements have proved lasting and influential.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
6 s/w Abbildungen
6 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-95262-0 (9780415952620)
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Persons
George Henderson is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of California and the Fictions of Capital (1999). MarvinWaterstone is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Arizona and is the editor of Risk andSociety (1992). He is also former editor of the Annalsof American Geographers, the discipline's flagship journal.
Content
Section 1: The Politics of Geographic Thought Introduction: Why is Geographic Thought always Political? 1. Revolutionary and Counter-revolutionary Teory in Gography and the Poblem of Getto Frmation 2. Geographic Models of Imperialism 3. On Not Excluding Half of the Human in Human Geography Section 2: Staking Claims Introduction: Moral Knowledge, Geographical Knowledge: What does it mean to claim Moral Ground, Or how is Oppression to be Recognized? Part One: Characterizing Oppressions and Recognizing Injustice Introduction 4. Five Faces of Oppression 5. Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation Part Two: Making Justice Spatial Introduction 6. Moral Progress in Human Geography: Transcending the Place of Good Fortune 7. Dissecting the Autonomous Self: Hybrid Cartographies for a Relational Ethics Part Three: Practicing Politicized Geographic Thought Introduction 8. Maps, Knowledge, and Power 9. Collaboration Across Borders: Moving Beyond Positionality 10. Research, Pedagogy, and Instrumental Geography 11. Situated Knowledge through Exploration: Reflections on Bunge's 'Geographic Expeditions' Section 3: Goals and Arenas of Struggle: What is to be Gained and How? Introduction: The Embeddedness of Intentions, Tactics, and Strategies in Rights-, Justice-, and Ethics-based Worldviews Part One: Rights-based Goals Introduction 12. Mobility, Empowerment and the Rights Revolution 13. Human Rights and Development in Africa: Moral Intrusion or Empowering Opportunity? 14. New World Warriors: 'Nation' and 'State' in the Politics of Zapatista and US patriot Movements 15. Social Theory and the de/reconstruction of Agricultural Science: Local Knowledge for an Alternative Agriculture Part Two: Justice-Based Goals Introduction 16. Restructuring the Contraction and Expansion of Environmental Rights in the United States 17. Environmental Justice and American Indian Tribal Sovereignty Case Study: Of a Land-Use Conflict in Skull Valley, Utah 18. Structural Power, Agency, and National Liberation: The Case of East Timor Part Three: Ethics-based goals Introduction 19. Post-Marxism: Democracy and Identity 20. U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of the Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World 21. An ethics of the Local