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: 9781444397352
• ISBN10: 1444397354
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2012-05-17
• 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 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Point Is To Change It

Now and Then

The Idea of Socialism

The Revolutionary Imperative

To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations

Postneoliberalism and Its Malcontents

D/developments after the Meltdown

Is the Globalization Consensus Dead?

The Uses of Neoliberalism

Crisis, Continuity and Change

Money Games

Pre-Black Futures

The Shape of Capitalism to Come

Who Counts? Dilemmas of Justice in a Postwestphalian World

The Communist Hypothesis and Revolutionary Capitalisms

An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene

Index

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