Geopiracy

Joel Wainwright

ISBN 10: 1137301732 / ISBN 13: 9781137301734

Verlag: SPRINGER NATURE Okt 2012, 2012

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Geopiracy is a study of the 'Bowman expeditions'-a project through which geographers, with funding from the US Army, are mapping the 'human terrain' of foreign lands. Wainwright offers a critique of human geography today that draws on contemporary social theory to raise unsettling questions about the nature of geography's disciplinary formation. 108 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Geopiracy
• Verlag: SPRINGER NATURE Okt 2012
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1137301732
• ISBN-13: 9781137301734
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Why have geographers remained so quiet about the resurgence of military funding for geographical research? Joel Wainwright argues that the underlying problem stems from our epistemic commitment to empiricism. Much as some would like to deny it, many geographers are executing their own 'expeditions' in the spirit of Isaiah Bowman, the early twentieth-century geographer who shaped the discipline's empiricist epistemology while helping the US to build its empire (and from whom the Expeditions take their name). Geopiracy delivers a critique of the 'Bowman expeditions'-a project through which geographers, with funding from the US Army, are mapping the 'human terrain' of foreign lands. Since the beginning of the controversy surrounding the Bowman expeditions, the discipline of geography has been rocked by debates concerning research methods, the military, and the effects of geospatial technologies on everyday life. Although the 'Oaxaca controversy' has fomented intense discussions, the questions it raises are far from resolved. Geopiracy offers a postcolonial critique of human geography today-one that draws on contemporary social theory to raise unsettling questions about the nature of geography's disciplinary formation.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joel Wainwright is a human geographer who teaches political economy and social theory at Ohio State University. He has published 32 research articles and book chapters on diverse topics. His first book, entitled Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya, won the Blaut award in 2010 and has been assigned and taught at more than ten research universities.