A wide-ranging and knowledgeable guide to the history of radical geography in North America and beyond.
- Includes contributions from an international group of scholars
- Focuses on the centrality of place, spatial circulation and geographical scale in understanding the rise of radical geography and its spread
- A celebration of radical geography from its early beginnings in the 1950s through to the 1980s, and after
- Draws on oral histories by leaders in the field and private and public archives
- Contains a wealth of never-before published historical material
- Serves as both authoritative introduction and indispensable professional reference
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| Notes on Contributors |
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| Series Editors' Preface |
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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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Part I Radical Geography within North America |
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1 Issues of "Race" and Early Radical Geography: Our Invisible Proponents |
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2 Myths, Cults, Memories, and Revisions in Radical Geographic History: Revisiting the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute |
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3 Radical Paradoxes: The Making of Antipode at Clark University |
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4 A "Necessary Stop on the Circuit": Radical Geography at Simon Fraser University |
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5 The Life and Times of the Union of Socialist Geographers |
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6 Baltimore as Truth Spot: David Harvey, Johns Hopkins, and Urban Activism |
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7 Berkeley In-Between: Radicalizing Economic Geography |
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8 Radical Geography in the Midwest |
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9 Radical Geography Goes Francophone |
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Part II Radical Geography beyond North America |
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10 Japan: The Yada Faction versus North American Radical Geography |
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11 The Rise and Decline of Radical Geography in South Africa |
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12 The Geographies of Critical Geography: The Development of Critical Geography in Mexico |
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13 "Let's here [ sic] it for the Brits, You help us here": North American Radical Geography and British Radical Geography Education |
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14 "Can these words, commonly applied to the Anglo-Saxon social sciences, fit the French?" Circulation, Translation, and Reception of Radical Geography in the French Academic Context |
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TREVOR J. BARNES is Professor of Geography and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia.
ERIC SHEPPARD is Professor of Geography and the Alexander von Humboldt Chair at UCLA, and Regents Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota.
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