Geographic Thought

Höfundur George Henderson

Útgefandi Taylor & Francis

Snið ePub

Print ISBN 9780415471701

Útgáfa 1

Útgáfuár 2009

10.690 kr.

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  • Cover Page
  • Half Title page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Section 1: The Politics of Geographic Thought
  • Introduction: Why is Geographic Thought Always Political?
  • A Few Words on Thought itself
  • Why is Geographic Thought Always Political?
  • 1 Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Theory in Geography and the Problem of Ghetto Formation
  • Notes
  • 2 Geographic Models of Imperialism
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • IV
  • V
  • VI
  • VII
  • Notes
  • 3 On Not Excluding Half of the Human in Human Geography
  • Why the Neglect of Women’s Issues?
  • Feminist Criticism in Other Disciplines
  • Some Examples of Sexist Bias in Geographic Research
  • Content
  • Method
  • Purpose
  • Toward a More Fully Human Geography
  • References
  • 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 1: Characterizing Oppressions and Recognizing Injustice
  • Introduction
  • 4 Five Faces of Oppression
  • Oppression as a Structural Concept
  • The Concept of a Social Group
  • The Faces of Oppression
  • Exploitation
  • Marginalization
  • Powerlessness
  • Cultural Imperialism
  • Violence
  • Applying the Criteria
  • Note
  • References
  • 5 Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation*
  • Redistribution or Recognition? Anatomy of a False Antithesis
  • Exploited Classes, Despised Sexualities, and Bivalent Categories: A Critique of Justice Truncated
  • Normative-Philosophical Issues: For a Two-Dimensional Theory of Justice
  • Social-Theoretical Issues: An Argument for “Perspectival Dualism”
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 2: Making Justice Spatial
  • Introduction
  • 6 Moral Progress in Human Geography Transcending the Place of Good Fortune
  • Introduction
  • The Place of Good Fortune
  • Towards Territorial Social Justice
  • Equalization in Context: Good Geography
  • Professional Ethics: Good Geographers
  • Conclusion: Towards a Progressive Human Geography
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • 7 Dissecting the Autonomous Self Hybrid Cartographies for a Relational Ethics
  • The Place of Ethics
  • Feminist Ethics: The Embodiment of Care?
  • Environmental Ethics: (Re)Considering Others
  • Hybrid Cartographies of Ethical Community
  • Geographical Directions for a Relational Ethics
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 3: Practicing Politicized Geographic Thought
  • Introduction
  • 8 Maps, Knowledge, and Power*
  • Theoretical Perspectives
  • Political Contexts for Maps
  • Maps and Empire
  • Maps and the Nation State
  • Maps and Property Rights
  • Map Content in the Transaction of Power
  • Deliberate Distortions of Map Content
  • “Unconscious” Distortions of Map Content
  • Subliminal Geometry
  • The Silence on Maps
  • Representational Hierarchies
  • The Cartographic Symbolism of Power
  • Maps in Painting
  • The Ideology of Cartographic Decoration
  • Cartographic “Fact” as Symbol
  • Conclusion: Cartographic Discourse and Ideology
  • Notes
  • 9 Collaboration Across Borders Moving Beyond Positionality
  • Interrogating ‘Relevance’ with Border-Crossings
  • From Partial Knowledges to Collaborative Border-Crossings
  • Border-Crossings in Translation
  • First Border-Crossing: Speaking ‘with’ Farah
  • Second Border-Crossing: Producing a Methodology to ‘Speak With’ Sangatin
  • Imagining Collaborative Feminist Postcolonial Geographies
  • Chuppi: The Collaboration that Did not Happen
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • 10 Research, Pedagogy, and Instrumental Geography
  • Introduction
  • Instrumental Knowledge and the Contested University
  • Theory, Praxis, Pedagogy
  • Notes
  • References
  • 11 Situated Knowledge Through Exploration Reflections on Bunge’s ‘Geographical Expeditions’
  • Introduction
  • Situated Knowledges
  • Situatedness Through Exploration
  • Resituating Geographical Expeditions
  • Towards a Situated Pedagogy and Praxis?
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • 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 1: Rights-Based Goals
  • Introduction
  • Examining the Place of Rights as a Goal (Among Others) in Struggles for Empowerment
  • What Makes a Given Struggle for Rights Progressive or Not? Is it Possible or Even Desirable to Place “Progressive” on One Side of a Binary Opposition?
  • Bringing Social (Feminist) Theory to the Struggle for Rights
  • 12 Mobility, Empowerment and the Rights Revolution1
  • The Left and Rights
  • The ‘So-Called Rights of Man’
  • The Rights Revolution
  • Law and Rights
  • Mobility
  • Relocating Mobility
  • Power, Space and Mobility Rights
  • The Denial of Place
  • Exile
  • Limits on Mobility and the Canadian Judiciary
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 13 Human Rights and Development in Africa Moral Intrusion or Empowering Opportunity?
  • Introduction
  • Evolution of the Rights-Based Development Agenda
  • Theoretical Underpinnings of Rights-Based Development
  • Dynamic Approaches to Human Development
  • Institutions, Governance and Participation
  • The Policy Content of Rights-Based Development
  • Implementing Rights-Based Development in Africa
  • The Paradoxes of Rights-Based Development in Africa
  • Sovereignty, Conditionality and Modernity
  • Universalism, Cultural Relativity and Community
  • The State, Democracy and Accountability
  • Globalization, Liberalization and Structural Underdevelopment
  • Citizenship and Social Welfare
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 14 New World Warriors ‘Nation’ and ‘State’ in the Politics of the Zapatista and US Patriot Movements
  • Introduction
  • Establishing Comparability, Evaluating Differences
  • Zapata Resurrected
  • Out of the Rubble
  • Zapatismo
  • Patriotism
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note
  • References
  • 15 Social Theory and the De/Reconstruction of Agricultural Science Local Knowledge for an Alternative Agriculture1
  • Introduction
  • The Greening of the National Research Council?
  • From Deconstruction to Reconstruction
  • Reconstruction: Bringing the Farmer Back in
  • Accepting Partiality: Articulating Situated Knowledges
  • Defining “Local Knowledge”
  • Recovering The Historical Farmer as a Knowledge Producer
  • The Curious Coincidence of Agroecology and Feminism
  • Reformed Science, Successor Science, or Decentered Science?
  • Alternative Methods for an Alternative Science
  • Women and the Transformation of Agricultural Science
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 2: Justice-Based Goals
  • Introduction
  • Assessing the Adequacy of Different Concepts of Justice to Particular Instances of Struggle; Assessing Changing Social-Spatial Situations and Naming New Political Strategies
  • Reconciling (Articulating) the Diverse Politics of Difference?
  • Using Social Theory, and the Debate Between “Structure” and “Agency,” to Explain Movement Success or Failure in Specific Times and Spaces
  • 16 Restructuring and the Contraction and Expansion of Environmental Rights in the United States
  • Introduction
  • Environmental Rights and Procedural Justice
  • Procedural Justice
  • Environmental Rights
  • Obstacles to Universal Environmental Rights and Quality
  • Restructuring and Environmental Rights
  • California and Mexico
  • Air Pollution in Southern California and the Contraction of Environmental Rights
  • Internationalization and the Expansion of Environmental Rights in the us Southwest
  • The Global Citizen? Some Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • 17 Environmental Justice and American Indian Tribal Sovereignty Case Study of a Land-Use Conflict in Skull Valley, Utah
  • Introduction
  • Environmental-Justice Research
  • Us Nuclear-Waste Policy and American Indian Tribes
  • The Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians
  • Toxic Desert: Historical Geography of Colonialism
  • Struggles for Self-Determination and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty
  • Politics of Tribal Sovereignty in the Environmental-Justice Movement
  • Struggles Over Tribal Sovereignty and Environmental Justice in the Skull Valley Conflict
  • Conclusion: What is Environmental Justice?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • 18 Structural Power, Agency, And National Liberation The Case of East Timor
  • Introduction
  • Recuperating Structure from the Critique of “Structural Marxism”
  • Structural Power and Human Agency
  • Structural Power and Economic Reductionism
  • Structural Power, the Power of the State, and Social form in the Era of “Globalization”
  • Occupation, Struggle and Liberation in East Timor6
  • The Rise of East Timorese Nationalism in the 1970s
  • The Fruition of East Timorese Independence Struggle in the 1990s
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 3: Ethics-Based Goals
  • Introduction
  • Defining the Social Ontology, Clarifying the Political: A Critical Reflection
  • Defining a More Flexible, Ethical Movement Consciousness
  • Engaging “Communities” in New Understandings of Local and Global Capacities
  • 19 Post-Marxism Democracy and Identity1
  • The Critique of Essentialism
  • Anti-Essentialism and Politics
  • Democracy and Identity
  • Note
  • References
  • 20 U.S. Third World Feminism The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World1
  • A Brief History
  • The Great Hegemonic Model
  • Toward a Theory of Oppositional Consciousness
  • Notes
  • 21 An Ethics of the Local
  • Preamble
  • Global/Local
  • First, Principles
  • Cultivating The Ethical Subject: The Politics of Research
  • Finding Positive Possibilities in the Visceral Register: Openings to the Diverse Economy
  • Exploring an Ethic of Cultivation: Opening to Other and Alternative Subjectivities
  • Fostering an Ethos of Engagement: Multiple Opportunities
  • Back to the Beginning: Principles as Practices
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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