Geographic thought: a praxis perspective/ edited by George Henderson and Marvin Waterstone.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1: The Politics of Geographic Thought Introduction: Why is Geographic Thought Always Political? 1. Revolutionary and Counter-revolutionary Theory in Geography and the Problem of Ghetto Formation (DAVID HARVEY) 2. Geographic Models of Imperialism (JAMES BLAUT) 3. On Not Excluding Half of the Human in Human Geography (JANICE MONK and SUSAN HANSON) 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 One: Characterizing Oppressions and Recognizing Injustice Introduction 4. Five Faces of Oppression (IRIS MARION YOUNG) 5. Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation (NANCY FRASER) Part Two: Making Justice Spatial Introduction 6. Moral Progress in Human Geography: Transcending the Place of Good Fortune (DAVID SMITH) 7. Dissecting the Autonomous Self: Hybrid Cartographies For A Relational Ethics (SARAH WHATMORE) Part Three: Practicing Politicized Geographic Thought Introduction 8. Maps, Knowledge, and Power (J. BRIAN HARLEY) 9. Collaboration Across Borders: Moving Beyond Positionality (RICHA NAGAR, with FARAH ALI) 10. Research, Pedagogy, and Instrumental Geography (RICH HEYMAN) 11. Situated Knowledge Through Exploration: Reflections on Bunge's 'Geographic Expeditions' (ANDY MERRIFIELD) 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 One: Rights-based Goals Introduction 12. Mobility, Empowerment and the Rights Revolution (NICHOLAS BLOMLEY) 13. Human Rights and Development in Africa: Moral Intrusion or Empowering Opportunity? (GILES MOHAN and JEREMY HOLLAND) 14. New World Warriors: 'nation' and 'state' in the Politics of Zapatista and US Patriot Movements (CAROLYN GALLAHER and OLIVER FROEHLING) 15. Social Theory and the De/reconstruction of Agricultural Science: Local Knowledge for an Alternative Agriculture (JACK KLOPPENBERG, JR.) Part Two: Justice-based Goals Introduction 16. Restructuring the Contraction and Expansion of Environmental Rights in the United States (LAURA PULIDO) 17. Environmental Justice and American Indian Tribal Sovereignty: Case Study of a Land-use Conflict in Skull Valley, Utah (NORIKO ISHIYAMA) 18. Structural Power, Agency, and National Liberation: The Case of East Timor (JAMES GLASSMAN) Part Three: Ethics-based Goals Introduction 19. Post-Marxism: Democracy and Identity (CHANTAL MOUFFE) 20. U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of the Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World (CHELA SANDOVAL) 21. An Ethics of the Local (J. K. GIBSON-GRAHAM)