Radical Geography
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Yep, fuck it. Neoliberalism sucks. We don't need it.
Interviews about how Gay Pride went from being political protest by lesbians, queers and transgender folks to a commercialized party for straight people.
On October 1, 1920, the city of Santiago, Chile, came to a halt as tens of thousands stopped work and their daily activities to join the funeral procession of José Domingo Gómez Rojas, a 24 year old university student and acclaimed poet.... more
Radical feminist analyses have always placed considerable emphasis on the crucial role played by social reproduction for the development of capitalism. Early social reproduction analyses – primarily premised on housework but also more... more
Reinforcing an urgent need to envisage and usher “postcapitalist” futures of nonhuman animal liberation into being, and thereby create important new counter-power spaces for CAS to occupy, this chapter focuses both on the struggle to... more
A number of people have claimed that the ongoing financial crisis has revealed the problems with neoliberal thought and neoliberal policies in the 'Atlantic Heartland'. However, if we look at the history of the 'Heartland' economies then... more
Children and childhood are not terms that spring to mind when thinking about radical geography, but what could be more radical than imagining and making a future in which childhood was a central consideration and the creation of liveable... more
La quema ha sido la herramienta ancestral de pueblos para trabajar la tierra, para prepararla a los fines de producir en ella por un tiempo y seguir (la tierra dando vida naturalmente y la humanidad rumbeando en busca de nuevos espacios... more
anarchistische geographien stellt die erste umfassende deutschsprachige Publikation dar, in der geographische Perspektiven und Konzepte mit Kämpfen, Praktiken und politischen Ideen von Anarchismen zusammen gedacht werden. In den Beiträgen... more
This paper argues that the figure of the migrant has come to be seen as a potential terrorist in the West, under the condition of a double, but completely opposed, set of crises internal to the nation-state.
Authors: Gahman, L., Reyes, J-R., Miller, T., Gibbings, R., Cohen, A., Greenidge, A.,
Published in: Kobayashi, A. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition. vol. 1, Elsevier, pp. 23–31.
Published in: Kobayashi, A. (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition. vol. 1, Elsevier, pp. 23–31.
The memorandum of understanding between Enron and the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, signed on 20 June 1992, set in motion the Dabhol Power Project, the largest corporate-led venture in Indian history. But even while the project was... more
This report brings attention to the educational project of Henri Lefebvre for social transformation in the city. This theoretical study is based primarily on Lefebvre’s (1991) The Production of Space and incorporates theorizing from the... more
The task of studying the impact of social class on physical and mental health involves, among other things, the use of a conceptual toolbox that defines what social class is, establishes how to measure it, and sets criteria that help... more
Nous aimons les animaux et, pourtant, nous aimons les manger. Comment supporter cette dissonance cognitive – le « paradoxe de la viande » ? Comment, également, la réduire sans pour autant suivre de fausses vérités ? Cet article analyse... more
The entry begins with a definition of geography and with a description of what the discipline shares with the other social sciences and what makes it distinctive among them. Terminological clarifications are provided with regard to the... more
This paper sets out to develop two related ideas. First, it seeks to identify how both violence and neoliberalism can be considered as moments. From this shared conceptualisation of process and fluidity, I argue that it becomes easier to... more
GEOG 5160, foundations of geographical thought, is a seminar offered by the Department of Geography at the University of North Texas. Foundations of geographical thought address the history, and ontological and epistemological aspects of... more
In a recent interview with the Chicago Tribune (Trice 2014), while discussing how modern Native Americans have become culturally invisible in the United States, indigenous rapper Frank Waln stated “we’re a people with a past, not of the... more
The rising number of non-status migrants is one of the central political issues of our time. This essay argues that if we want to understand the political and philosophical importance of this phenomenon, the contributions of Alain Badiou,... more
Schooling is a form of misopedy and a fundamental structure in conditioning societal acceptance of domination in other registers. The subordination of children begins with the misguided notion that they are incapable of autonomy,... more
This paper places geographies of responsibility on stolen and occupied Indigenous lands in settler colonial Canada. Responsibilities to Indigenous lands and peoples are contextualized within the spectacle of reconciliation in Canada. In... more
'The Discourse of Neoliberalism: An Anatomy of a Powerful Idea' explores the internal workings of capitalism’s most infamous contemporary offspring by dissecting the diverse interpretations of neoliberalism that have been advanced in... more
This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. The last decade alone has marked the highest number of migrations in recorded history. Constrained by environmental, economic, and political instability, scores of... more
This working collection of essays problematizes biocentrist conceptions of humanity and looks past the competitive, dominating mechanical evolution of humanity in the Age of Scarcity and Labor to examine the potential for conscious... more
Despite centuries of progressive resistance, the enduring structures of empire, settler colonialism, hetero-patriarchy, white supremacy and neoliberal capitalism have proven resilient. Alternatives have been forged within different scales... more
(2017) Anthropozän oder Kapitalozän? Der emanzipatorische Gehalt ökologischer Krisenbe-arbeitung zwischen Gesellschaft und Technik. In: Buckermann, Paul/Koppenburger, An-ne/Schaupp, Simon: Kybernetik, Kapitalismus, Revolutionen.... more
El trabajo analiza la influencia de Henri Lefebvre en el Plan General de Ordenación Urbana de Madrid, 1985. Se contraponen algunos de los principales elementos de su pensamiento urbano, como 'derecho a la ciudad', 'apropiación', 'vida... more