The Point Is To Change It
Geographies of Hope and Survival in an Age of Crisis
Antipode Book Series
April 2010
360 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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
Introduction: The Point Is To Change It
Noel Castree, Paul Chatterton, Nik Heynen, Wendy Larner and Melissa W. Wright 1
1 Now and Then
Michael J. Watts 10
2 The Idea of Socialism: From 1968 to the Present-day Crisis
Hugo Radice 27
3 The Revolutionary Imperative
Neil Smith 50
4 To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations
Tania Murray Li 66
5 Postneoliberalism and Its Malcontents
Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore and Neil Brenner 94
6 D/developments after the Meltdown
Gillian Hart 117
7 Is the Globalization Consensus Dead?
Robert Wade 142
8 The Uses of Neoliberalism
James Ferguson 166
9 Crisis, Continuity and Change: Neoliberalism, the Left and the Future of Capitalism
Noel Castree 185
10 Money Games: Currencies and Power in the Contemporary World Economy
John Agnew 214
11 Pre-Black Futures
Katharyne Mitchell 239
12 The Shape of Capitalism to Come
Paul Cammack 262
13 Who Counts? Dilemmas of Justice in a Postwestphalian World
Nancy Fraser 281
14 The Communist Hypothesis and Revolutionary Capitalisms: Exploring the Idea of Communist Geographies for the 21st Century
Erik Swyngedouw 298
15 An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene
J. K. Gibson-Graham and Gerda Roelvink 320
Index 347
scholarship." (Swedish Society for Anthropology
& Geography, 2011)
Development, Manchester University.
Paul Chatterton directs the MA for Social Activism at the
University of Leeds.
Nik Heynen is an Associate Professor at the University of
Georgia.
Wendy Larner is a Professor of Geography at Bristol
University who works on globalisation and gender.
Melissa W. Wright is an Associate Professor in the
Geography and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State
University.
