The Point Is To Change It Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis

by Castree, Noel; Chatterton, Paul A.; Heynen, Nik; Larner, Wendy; Wright, Melissa W.

• ISBN13: 9781405198349
• ISBN10: 1405198346
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-19
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

Noel Castree is a Professor in the School of Environment and Development, Manchester University Paul Chatterton directs the MA in Activism and Social Change at the University of Leeds Nik Heynen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia, USA Melissa W. Wright is an Associate Professor in the Geography and Women's I Studies at The Pennsylvania State University Wendy Larner is a Professor of Geography at Bristol University who works on globalisation and gender

Table of Contents

The Point Is To Change It
Introduction: The Point Is To Change It	p. 1
Now and Then	p. 10
The Idea of Socialism: From 1968 to the Present-day Crisis	p. 27
The Revolutionary Imperative	p. 50
To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations	p. 66
Postneoliberalism and Its Malcontents	p. 94
D/developments after the Meltdown	p. 117
Is the Globalization Consensus Dead?	p. 142
The Uses of Neoliberalism	p. 166
Crisis, Continuity and Change: Neoliberalism, the Left and the Future of Capitalism	p. 185
Money Games: Currencies and Power in the Contemporary World Economy	p. 214
Pre-Black Futures	p. 239
The Shape of Capitalism to Come	p. 262
Who Counts? Dilemmas of Justice in a Postwestphalian World	p. 281
The Communist Hypothesis and Revolutionary Capitalisms: Exploring the Idea of Communist Geographies for the 21st Century	p. 298
An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene	p. 320
Index	p. 347
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