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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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