Geographic Thought : A Praxis Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415471695 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 400 str.

Opis

Offers an approach to learning about 'Geographic Thought'. This book provides readers with insights into the encounters between scholarship and practice and aims to prompt debates over how social and geographical knowledges arise from the context of social

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Section 1: The Politics of Geographic Thought  Introduction: Why is Geographic Thought Always Political?  1. Revolutionary and Counter-revolutionary Theory in Geography and the Problem of Ghetto Formation (DAVID HARVEY)  2. Geographic Models of Imperialism (JAMES BLAUT)  3. On Not Excluding Half of the Human in Human Geography (JANICE MONK and SUSAN HANSON)  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 (IRIS MARION YOUNG)  5. Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation (NANCY FRASER)  Part Two: Making Justice Spatial  Introduction  6. Moral Progress in Human Geography: Transcending the Place of Good Fortune (DAVID SMITH)  7. Dissecting the Autonomous Self: Hybrid Cartographies For A Relational Ethics (SARAH WHATMORE)  Part Three: Practicing Politicized Geographic Thought  Introduction  8. Maps, Knowledge, and Power (J. BRIAN HARLEY)  9. Collaboration Across Borders: Moving Beyond Positionality (RICHA NAGAR, with FARAH ALI)  10. Research, Pedagogy, and Instrumental Geography (RICH HEYMAN)  11. Situated Knowledge Through Exploration: Reflections on Bunge’s ‘Geographic Expeditions’ (ANDY MERRIFIELD)  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 (NICHOLAS BLOMLEY)  13. Human Rights and Development in Africa: Moral Intrusion or Empowering Opportunity? (GILES MOHAN and JEREMY HOLLAND)  14. New World Warriors: ‘nation’ and ‘state’ in the Politics of Zapatista and US Patriot Movements (CAROLYN GALLAHER and OLIVER FROEHLING)  15. Social Theory and the De/reconstruction of Agricultural Science: Local Knowledge for an Alternative Agriculture (JACK KLOPPENBERG, JR.)  Part Two: Justice-based Goals  Introduction  16. Restructuring the Contraction and Expansion of Environmental Rights in the United States (LAURA PULIDO)  17. Environmental Justice and American Indian Tribal Sovereignty: Case Study of a Land-use Conflict in Skull Valley, Utah (NORIKO ISHIYAMA)  18. Structural Power, Agency, and National Liberation: The Case of East Timor (JAMES GLASSMAN)  Part Three: Ethics-based Goals  Introduction  19. Post-Marxism: Democracy and Identity (CHANTAL MOUFFE)  20. U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of the Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World (CHELA SANDOVAL)  21. An Ethics of the Local (J. K. GIBSON-GRAHAM)

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George Henderson is a human geographer who teaches and writes about the political economy of American capitalism. He is the author of the book California and the Fictions of Capital (Temple University Press paperback, 2003) and is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota.

Marv Waterstone is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Arizona. He was also the Director of the University of Arizona's Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies. His current teaching includes History of Geographic Thought, Risk and Society, Radical Geography, Geography and Social Justice, Environmental and Resource Geography, and Governing Science and Technology.