Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A Radical
Journal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of the
critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not
simply to interpret the world but to change it
* Brings together leading critical social scientists to consider
the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about
them
* Applies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issues
including the global economic crisis, transnational environmental
problems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, and
proliferating natural disasters
* Theoretically diverse – a range of perspectives are put to work
ranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchism
* The chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of the
present and future world order
Journal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of the
critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not
simply to interpret the world but to change it
* Brings together leading critical social scientists to consider
the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about
them
* Applies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issues
including the global economic crisis, transnational environmental
problems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, and
proliferating natural disasters
* Theoretically diverse – a range of perspectives are put to work
ranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchism
* The chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of the
present and future world order
Spis treści
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 the
Protection of Surplus Populations: Tania Murray Li
5 Postneoliberalism and Its Malcontents: Jamie Peck, Nik
Theodore 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 the
Future of Capitalism: Noel Castree
10 Money Games: Currencies and Power in the Contemporary World
Economy: 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-Graham
and Gerda Roelvink
Index
O autorze
Noel Castree is a Professor in the School of Environment andDevelopment, Manchester University.
Paul Chatterton directs the MA for Social Activism at the
University of Leeds.
Nik Heynen is an Associate Professor at the University of
Georgia.
Wendy Larner is a Professor of Geography at Bristol
University who works on globalisation and gender.
Melissa W. Wright is an Associate Professor in the
Geography and Women’s Studies at The Pennsylvania State
University.
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