The point is to change it: geographies of hope and survival in an age of crisis

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 itBrings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about themApplies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issues including the global economic crisis, transnational environmental problems, record levels of malnourishment, never endingwars, and proliferating natural disastersTheoretically diverse - a range of perspectives are put to work ranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchismThe chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of the present and future world order INDICE: Introduction: The Point Is To Change It: Noel Castree, Paul Chatterton, Nik Heynen, Wendy Larner and Melissa W. Wright1 Now and Then: Michael J.Watts2 The Idea of Socialism: From 1968 to the Present-day Crisis: Hugo Radice3 The Revolutionary Imperative: Neil Smith4 To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations: Tania Murray Li5 Postneoliberalism and Its Malcontents: Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore and Neil Brenner6 D/developments after the Meltdown: Gillian Hart7 Is the Globalization Consensus Dead?: Robert Wade8 The Uses of Neoliberalism: James Ferguson9 Crisis, Continuity and Change: Neoliberalism, the Left and the Future of Capitalism: Noel Castree10 Money Games: Currencies and Power in the Contemporary World Economy: John Agnew11 Pre-Black Futures: Katharyne Mitchell12 The Shape of Capitalism to Come: Paul Cammack13 Who Counts? Dilemmas of Justice in a Postwestphalian World: Nancy Fraser14 The Communist Hypothesis and Revolutionary Capitalisms: Exploring the Idea of Communist Geographies for the 21st Century: Erik Swyngedouw15 An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene: J. K. Gibson-Graham and Gerda RoelvinkIndex

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-9735-2
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 360
• Fecha Publicación: 15/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés