The Point Is To Change It
Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis
Published on 24. December 2013
360 pages
978-1-4443-9733-8 (ISBN)
Description
Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A RadicalJournal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of thecritical social scientist and how the point of their work is notsimply to interpret the world but to change it
* Brings together leading critical social scientists to considerthe major challenges of our time and what is to be done aboutthem
* Applies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issuesincluding the global economic crisis, transnational environmentalproblems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, andproliferating natural disasters
* Theoretically diverse - a range of perspectives are put to workranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchism
* The chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of thepresent and future world order
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"In all, an applaudable work of thoughtfulscholarship." (Swedish Society for Anthropology& Geography, 2011)More details
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Persons
Noel Castree is a Professor in the School of Environment andDevelopment, Manchester University.
Paul Chatterton directs the MA for Social Activism at theUniversity of Leeds.
Nik Heynen is an Associate Professor at the University ofGeorgia.
Wendy Larner is a Professor of Geography at BristolUniversity who works on globalisation and gender.
Melissa W. Wright is an Associate Professor in theGeography and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania StateUniversity.
Content
Introduction: The Point Is To Change It: Noel Castree, PaulChatterton, Nik Heynen, Wendy Larner and Melissa W. Wright
1 Now and Then: Michael J. Watts
2 The Idea of Socialism: From 1968 to the Present-day Crisis:Hugo Radice
3 The Revolutionary Imperative: Neil Smith
4 To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and theProtection of Surplus Populations: Tania Murray Li
5 Postneoliberalism and Its Malcontents: Jamie Peck, NikTheodore and Neil Brenner
6 D/developments after the Meltdown: Gillian Hart
7 Is the Globalization Consensus Dead?: Robert Wade
8 The Uses of Neoliberalism: James Ferguson
9 Crisis, Continuity and Change: Neoliberalism, the Left and theFuture of Capitalism: Noel Castree
10 Money Games: Currencies and Power in the Contemporary WorldEconomy: John Agnew
11 Pre-Black Futures: Katharyne Mitchell
12 The Shape of Capitalism to Come: Paul Cammack
13 Who Counts? Dilemmas of Justice in a Postwestphalian World:Nancy Fraser
14 The Communist Hypothesis and Revolutionary Capitalisms:Exploring the Idea of Communist Geographies for the 21st Century:Erik Swyngedouw
15 An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene: J. K. Gibson-Grahamand Gerda Roelvink
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