Dissident Geographies

by Alison Blunt, Jane Wills

Dissident Geographies is an accessible and lively exploration of radical perspectives in human geography. The perspectives examined in the book reveal and resist certain power relations that have constituted geographical knowledge. The book has two main aims. First, rather than reify 'the' geographical tradition, Dissident Geographies introduces a number of geographical traditions that challenge and destabilize what counts as geographical knowledge. Second, the book shows how the production of geographical knowledge is tied to politics and struggles outside as well as within the academy. In each chapter, case studies illustrate the spatiality of political practice and the politics of geographical thought. In this way Dissident Geographies reveals the connections between power, politics and geographical knowledge.

Paperback

First published December 1, 1999

Reviews

[Andrea · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very short and quick, but good, coverage of geography in anarchism, marxism, feminism, queer theory and struggle, and postcolonial theory. Now a bit outdated, I'm sure many would have quibbles with how they've condensed some of the main points, I do as well, but that's to be expected and I think they did a good job over all. It doesn't have a section on critical race or the environmental crisis (I suppose global warming was just heating up, ha) which is an absence, and it's quite UK/US centric, but for a grasp of the broad outlines of radical theory in geography and the principal theorists, this is a very handy little book.