Book description
This topical book addresses contemporary concern with the
interconnections between geography and morality.
- Covers both the geographical context of morality, and moralities
in geographical methods and practices.
- Contains up-to-date case studies based on original research.
- Deals with controversial issues, such as problems of
globalization, European integration, human rights in Nigeria,
territorial conflict in Israel, and land reform in post-apartheid
South Africa.
- The editors are well-published leading international authorities.
- The contributors are drawn from Australia, Eastern Europe, Israel,
South Africa, the UK and the US.
Roger Lee
is Professor of Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. He was
editor of the
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
from 1993 to 1998 and is currently an editor of
Progress in Human Geography
. His previous publications include
Economic Geography
(third edition, 1982),
Teaching Geography in Higher Education
(Blackwell, 1991),
Geographies of Economies
(1997) and
Alternative Economic Spaces
(2003). He is also an academician of the Academy of Learned Societies
in the Social Sciences.
David M. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Queen
Mary, University of London. He held earlier appointments at the
Universities of Manchester, Southern Illinois, Florida, Natal, the
Witwatersrand and New England (Australia). He is the author or editor
of twenty books, including Geography and Social Justice
(Blackwell, 1994) and Moral Geographies: Ethics in a World of
Difference (2000).
