Geography and ethics : journeys in a moral terrain / edited by James D. Proctor and David M. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Proctor, James D., 1957-

Smith, David M. (David Marshall), 1936-2021.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geography.

Geography--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book represents a landmark exploration of the common terrain of geography and ethics. Drawing together specially commissioned contributions from distinguished geographers across the UK, North America and Australasia, the place of geography in ethics and of ethics in geography is examined through wide-ranging, thematic chapters.Geography and Ethics is divided into four sections for discussion and exploration of ideas: Ethics and Space; Ethics and Place; Ethics and Nature and Ethics and knowledge, all of which point to the rich interplay between geography and moral philosophy o

Contents:

Cover; Geography and Ethics: Journeys in a moral terrain; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: Overlapping terrains; Part 1 Ethics and space; 2 Meaning and geography; 3 Geography, justice and the limits of rights; 4 Geography, fairness, and liberal democracy; 5 Exploring the ethics of development; 6 Virtual geographies: The ethics of the Internet; Part 2 Ethics and place; 7 "Hereness" and the normativity of place; 8 Geography and evil: A sketch; 9 The ethnic cleansing of a "safe area": The fall of Srebrenica and the ethics of UN-governmentality

10 Social justice, self-interest and Salman Rushdie: Reassessing identity politics in multicultural Britain Part 3 Ethics and nature; 11 A moral earth: Facts and values in global environmental change; 12 Natural and unnatural wars; 13 Altered states: Nature and place in the Russian Far East; 14 The problem of pigs; Part 4 Ethics and knowledge; 15 Community, justice, and the ethics of research: Negotiating reciprocal research relations; 16 Morals and ethics in geographical studies of disability; 17 Reciprocal appropriation: Toward an ethics of cross-cultural research

18 Ethical issues in practical contexts 19 The end of the Enlightenment?: Moral philosophy and geographical practice; 20 Conclusion: Towards a context-sensitive ethics; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-65684-X

1-134-65685-8

1-280-33225-5

0-203-02648-9

9780203026489

OCLC:

437078556