Geographies and Moralities International Perspectives on Development, Justice and Place

by Lee, Roger; Smith, David M.

• ISBN13: 9781405116367
• ISBN10: 1405116366
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the interconnections between geography and morality. It recognizes that there are ls"moral geographiesrs", involving differences in moral values and practices from place to place. It also recognizes that there are moralities in geography, in the sense of research methods and practices which may be subject to normative evaluation and codes of professional ethics. After a foreword by Revaz Gachechiladze and an introductory chapter by the editors explaining the academic context and approach adopted, contributors from a number of different countries provide international perspectives on the issues, supported by case studies from their own original research. These case studies deal with a wide range of controversial topics, including global inequalities, uneven development in Europe, struggles over human rights in Nigeria, territorial conflict in Israel and land reform in post-apartheid South Africa.

Author Biography

Roger Lee is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He was editor of the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers from 1993 to 1998 and is currently an editor of Progress in Human Geography. His previous publications include Economic Geography (third edition, 1982), Teaching Geography in Higher Education (Blackwell, 1991), Geographies of Economies (1997) and Alternative Economic Spaces (2003). He is also an academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences.

David M. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He held earlier appointments at the Universities of Manchester, Southern Illinois, Florida, Natal, the Witwatersrand and New England (Australia). He is the author or editor of twenty books, including Geography and Social Justice (Blackwell, 1994) and Moral Geographies: Ethics in a World of Difference (2000).

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	x
Notes on Contributors	xi
Foreword	xvi
Preface	xviii
Acknowledgements	xx
Introduction: Geographies of Morality and Moralities of Geography	1	(12)
Roger Lee
David M. Smith
Part I Moral Geographies of Uneven Development	13	(66)
Globalization, Production and the (Im) morality of Uneven Development	17	(15)
Peter Dicken
Regional Inequality, Convergence and Enlargement in the European Union	32	(15)
Nigel Spence
Moral Problems of Eastern Wilderness: European Core and Periphery	47	(15)
Boleslaw Domanski
Where the Grass is Greener in Poland: Regional and Intra-urban Inequalities	62	(17)
Grzegorz Weclawowicz
Part II Moral Geographies of Distribution: Justice, Welfare and Rights	79	(102)
Social Exclusion, Health and Health Care: The Case of the National Health Service in England	83	(17)
Sarah E. Curtis
The Problem with Welfare	100	(20)
Susan J. Smith
Donna Easterlow
Struggles over Human Rights in Nigeria: Questions of Scale in Moral Geography	120	(15)
Rex Honey
Valuing Land and Distributing Territory	135	(14)
Avery Kolers
When Two Rights Collide: Some Lessons from Jerusalem	149	(16)
Shlomo Hasson
Land Reform Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Elusive Quest for Social Justice?	165	(16)
Brij Maharaj
Part III Moral Geographies in Place	181	(48)
Waiting in Line, or the Moral and Material Geographies of Queue-Jumping	183	(16)
Stuart Corbridge
Moral Geographies of Sexual Citizenship	199	(12)
Gill Valentine
`But Tight Jeans Are Better!': Moral Improvisation and Ethical Judgement in Local Planning Decision-Making	211	(18)
Jean Hillier
Part IV Geography and Ethics: Method and Practice	229	(34)
The Quality of Ethics: Moral Causation, Method and Metatheory in the Interdisciplinary Science of Geography	231	(14)
William S. Lynn
On the Pavement: Reflections on Fieldwork with Urban Poor Black Women Street Traders in Durban, South Africa	245	(18)
Priscilla Cunnan
Part V Moral Context and Professional Practice in Geography	263	(36)
Disciplinary Change and Career Paths	265	(19)
Ron Johnston
From Location Theory to Moral Philosophy: Views from the Fringe	284	(15)
David M. Smith
Index	299