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„In all, an applaudable work of thoughtfulscholarship.“ (Swedish Society for Anthropology& Geography, 2011)
The Point Is To Change It
Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis
herausgegeben von Noel Castree, Paul A. Chatterton, Nik Heynen, Wendy Larner und Melissa W. WrightCommissioned to celebrate the 40th year of Antipode: A RadicalJournal of Geography, this book evaluates the role of thecritical social scientist and how the point of their work is notsimply to interpret the world but to change it
* Brings together leading critical social scientists to considerthe major challenges of our time and what is to be done aboutthem
* Applies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issuesincluding the global economic crisis, transnational environmentalproblems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, andproliferating natural disasters
* Theoretically diverse - a range of perspectives are put to workranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchism
* The chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of thepresent and future world order
* Brings together leading critical social scientists to considerthe major challenges of our time and what is to be done aboutthem
* Applies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issuesincluding the global economic crisis, transnational environmentalproblems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, andproliferating natural disasters
* Theoretically diverse - a range of perspectives are put to workranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchism
* The chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of thepresent and future world order
