Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference
(Sprache: Englisch)
The world s leading geographer establishes new foundations forthe understanding of social life at different times and differentplaces.Reintroduces concepts of value into postmodern socialtheory.
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The world s leading geographer establishes new foundations forthe understanding of social life at different times and differentplaces.Reintroduces concepts of value into postmodern socialtheory.
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This book engages with the politics of social and environmentaljustice, and seeks new ways to think about the future ofurbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishesfoundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place andnature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted andrepresented through social practices, not as separate elements butin relation to each other. It describes how geographicaldifferences are produced, and shows how they then becomefundamental to the exploration of political, economic andecological alternatives to contemporary life.The book is divided into four parts. Part I describes theproblematic nature of action and analysis at different scales oftime and space, and introduces the reader to the modes ofdialectical thinking and discourse which are used throughout theremainder of the work. Part II examines how "nature" and"environment" have been understood and valued in relation toprocesses of social change and seeks, from this basis, to makesense of contemporary environmental issues.Part III, is a wide-ranging discussion of history, geography andculture, explores the meaning of the social "production" of spaceand time, and clarifies problems related to "otherness" and"difference". The final part of the book deploys the foundationalarguments the author has established to consider contemporaryproblems of social justice that have resulted from recent changesin geographical divisions of labor, in the environment, and in thepace and quality of urbanization.Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference speaks to a widereadership of students of social, cultural and spatial theory andof the dynamics of contemporary life. It is a convincingdemonstration that it is both possible and necessary to valuedifference and to seek a just social order.
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Thoughts for a Prologue.Introduction.Part I: Orientations.1. Militant Particularism and Global Ambition.2. Dialectics.3. A Cautionary Tale on Internal Relations.4. The Dialectics of Discourse.5. Historical Agency and the Loci of Social Change.Part II: The Nature of Environment.Prologue.6. The Domination of Nature and its Discontents.7. Valuing Nature.8. The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change.Part III: Space, Time and Place.Prologue.9. The Social Construction of Space and Time.10. The Currency of Space-Time.11. From Space to Place and Back Again.Part IV: Justice, Difference and Politics.Prologue.12. Class Relations, Social Justice and the Political Geographyof Difference.13. The Environment of Justice.14. Possible Urban Worlds.Thoughts for an Epilogue.Bibliography.Index.
Autoren-Porträt von David Harvey
David Harvey ist Dozent am Graduate Center der City University of New York und Autor zahlreicher Bücher.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Harvey
- 480 Seiten, 20 Abbildungen, Maße: 15,2 x 22,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
- ISBN-10: 1557866813
- ISBN-13: 9781557866813
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.01.1997
Sprache:
Englisch
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"As always with Harvey's work, this is a book rich in ideas and dense in argument... It should be widely read and argued over by all of us in the urban and environmental field." P. Healey, Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design "This surely is a most important book and one to turn to again and again as David Harvey's work never fails to be challenging." Linda McDowell, University of Cambridge "... Harvey's writing remains enviably readable and maintains a compelling sense of urgency and purpose." Steve Hinchliffe, Open University "... this book deserves a very wide readership, even among those who are more practically or even policy oriented. It is a rich and creative text, which confronts some of the biggest social and political questions we face today." Allan Cochrane, The Open University "As a contribution to the development of geographical scholarship in the historical materialist tradition, this is a landmark volume..." David M. Smith, Queen Mary and Westfield College "Clearly, this book is a tour de force ... Its breadth of reference makes almost every page interesting and provocative." Alan M. Hay, The Geographical Journal
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