Geographic Thought: A Praxis Perspective

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ISBN: 9780415471701 | 0415471702
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Copyright: 11/3/2008

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This unabridged reader offers a fresh approach to learning about Geographic Thought by showing, through concrete examples and detailed editorial essays, how the discipline has been forever altered by the rise of progressive social struggles of the last 30 years.

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
The Politics of Geographic Thought	p. 1
Introduction: why is geographic thought always political?	p. 3
Revolutionary and counter-revolutionary theory in geography and the problem of ghetto formation	p. 13
Geographic models of imperialism	p. 23
On not excluding half of the human in human geography	p. 35
Staking Claims	p. 47
Introduction: moral knowledge/geographical knowledge - what does it mean to claim moral ground, or how is oppression to be recognized?	p. 49
Characterizing oppressions and recognizing injustice	p. 51
Introduction	p. 51
Five faces of oppression	p. 55
Social justice in the age of identity politics: redistribution, recognition, and participation	p. 72
Making justice spatial	p. 91
Introduction	p. 91
Moral progress in human geography: transcending the place of good fortune	p. 95
Dissecting the autonomous self: hybrid cartographies for a relational ethics	p. 109
Practicing politicized geographic thought	p. 123
Introduction	p. 123
Maps, knowledge, and power	p. 129
Collaboration across borders: moving beyond positionality	p. 149
Research, pedagogy, and instrumental geography	p. 162
Situated knowledge through exploration: reflections on Bunge's 'Geographical Expeditions'	p. 173
Goals and Arenas of Struggle: What Is to Be Gained and How?	p. 187
Introduction: the embeddedness of intentions, tactics, and strategies in rights-, justice-, and ethics-based worldviews	p. 189
Rights-based goals	p. 193
Introduction	p. 193
Mobility, empowerment and the rights revolution	p. 201
Human rights and development in Africa: moral intrusion or empowering opportunity?	p. 215
New world warriors: 'nation' and 'state' in the politics of Zapatista and US Patriot Movements	p. 231
Social theory and the de/reconstruction of agricultural science: local knowledge for an alternative agriculture	p. 248
Justice-based goals	p. 267
Introduction	p. 267
Restructuring and the contraction and expansion of environmental rights in the United States	p. 274
Environmental justice and American Indian tribal sovereignty: case study of a land-use conflict in Skull Valley, Utah	p. 293
Structural power, agency, and national liberation: the case of East Timor	p. 307
Ethics-based goals	p. 325
Introduction	p. 325
Post-Marxism: democracy and identity	p. 332
U.S. third world feminism: the theory and method of oppositional consciousness in the postmodern world	p. 338
An ethics of the local	p. 355
Bibliography	p. 371
Index	p. 375
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