The Point Is To Change It

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 it Brings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about them Applies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issues including the global economic crisis, transnational environmental problems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, and proliferating natural disasters Theoretically diverse - a range of perspectives are put to work ranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchism The chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of the present and future world order

Commissioned 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

Introduction: The Point Is To Change It: Noel Castree, PaulChatterton, 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 theProtection of Surplus Populations: Tania Murray Li5 Postneoliberalism and Its Malcontents: Jamie Peck, NikTheodore 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 theFuture of Capitalism: Noel Castree10 Money Games: Currencies and Power in the Contemporary WorldEconomy: 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-Grahamand Gerda RoelvinkIndex