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Without social movements and wider struggles for progressive social
change, the field of Geography would lack much of its contemporary
relevance and vibrancy. Moreover, these struggles and the
geographical scholarship that engages with them have changed the
philosophical underpinnings of the discipline and have inflected
the quest for geographical knowledge with a sense not only of
urgency but also hope. This reader, intended for advanced
undergraduate and beginning graduate courses in Geographic Thought,
is at once an analysis of Geography's theoretical and practical
concerns and an encounter with grounded political struggles. This
reader offers a fresh approach to learning about Geographic Thought
by showing, through concrete examples and detailed editorial
essays, how the discipline has been forever altered by the rise of
progressive social struggles. Structured to aid student
understanding, the anthology presents substantive main and part
introductory essays and features more than two dozen unabridged
published works by leading scholars that emphatically articulate
geographic thought to progressive social change. Each section is
introduced with an explanation of how the following pieces fit into
the broader context of geographic work amidst the socially
progressive struggles that have altered social relations in various
parts of the world over the last half-century or so. Doubly, it
places this work in the context of the larger goals of social
struggles to frame or reframe rights, justice, and ethics.
Geographic Thought provides readers with insights into the
encounters between scholarship and practice and aims to prompt
debates over how social and geographical knowledges arise from the
context of social struggles and how these knowledges might be
redirected at those contexts in constructive, evaluative ways. The
reader is unique not only in knowing Geographic Thought through its
progressive political attachments, instead of through a series of
abstract "isms", but in gathering together salient works by
geographers as well as scholars in cognate fields, such as Nancy
Fraser, Chantal Mouffe, Iris Marion Young, and Jack Kloppenberg,
whose own engagements have proved lasting and influential. For
researchers and students interested in the connections between
theoretically informed work and the possibilities for bettering
people's everyday lives, this book provides an innovative and
compelling argument for why Geographic Thought is valuable and
necessary.
Without social movements and wider struggles for progressive social
change, the field of Geography would lack much of its contemporary
relevance and vibrancy. Moreover, these struggles and the
geographical scholarship that engages with them have changed the
philosophical underpinnings of the discipline and have inflected
the quest for geographical knowledge with a sense not only of
urgency but also hope. This reader, intended for advanced
undergraduate and beginning graduate courses in Geographic Thought,
is at once an analysis of Geography's theoretical and practical
concerns and an encounter with grounded political struggles. This
reader offers a fresh approach to learning about Geographic Thought
by showing, through concrete examples and detailed editorial
essays, how the discipline has been forever altered by the rise of
progressive social struggles. Structured to aid student
understanding, the anthology presents substantive main and part
introductory essays and features more than two dozen unabridged
published works by leading scholars that emphatically articulate
geographic thought to progressive social change. Each section is
introduced with an explanation of how the following pieces fit into
the broader context of geographic work amidst the socially
progressive struggles that have altered social relations in various
parts of the world over the last half-century or so. Doubly, it
places this work in the context of the larger goals of social
struggles to frame or reframe rights, justice, and ethics.
Geographic Thought provides readers with insights into the
encounters between scholarship and practice and aims to prompt
debates over how social and geographical knowledges arise from the
context of social struggles and how these knowledges might be
redirected at those contexts in constructive, evaluative ways. The
reader is unique not only in knowing Geographic Thought through its
progressive political attachments, instead of through a series of
abstract "isms", but in gathering together salient works by
geographers as well as scholars in cognate fields, such as Nancy
Fraser, Chantal Mouffe, Iris Marion Young, and Jack Kloppenberg,
whose own engagements have proved lasting and influential. For
researchers and students interested in the connections between
theoretically informed work and the possibilities for bettering
people's everyday lives, this book provides an innovative and
compelling argument for why Geographic Thought is valuable and
necessary.
Through diversity, America has grown strong as a nation. Although
all segments of the population share certain life patterns and
basic beliefs, there are many differences in traditional lifestyles
and cultures among ethnic groups. Respect for such differences is a
benchmark of a democratic nation. Migrants, Immigrants, and Slaves
documents the fact that all American ethnic groups have been both
the oppressed and the oppressors. The book is written for
introductory American history, ethnic studies, and sociology
courses. Special attention is given to the immigration patterns and
cultural contributions of more than 50 ethnic groups.
For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (1939-2001) has
been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of
the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music. Mythologizing
himself as Blind Joe Death, Fahey crudely parodied white
middle-class fascination with African American blues, including his
own. In this book, George Henderson mines Fahey's parallel careers
as essayist, notorious liner note stylist, musicologist, and
fabulist for the first time. These vocations, inspired originally
by Cold War educators' injunction to creatively express rather than
suppress feelings, took utterly idiosyncratic and prescient turns.
Fahey voraciously consumed ideas: in the classroom, the
counterculture, the civil rights struggle, the new left; through
his study of philosophy, folklore, African American blues; and
through his experience with psychoanalysis and southern
paternalism. From these, he produced a profoundly and unexpectedly
refracted vision of America. To read Fahey is to vicariously
experience devastating critical energies and self-soothing
uncertainty, passions emerging from a singular location-the place
where lone, white rebel sentiment must regard the rebellion of
others. Henderson shows the nuance, contradictions, and sometimes
brilliance of Fahey's words that, though they were never sung to a
tune, accompanied his music.
For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (1939-2001) has
been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of
the long 1960s, later for fans of alternative music. Mythologizing
himself as Blind Joe Death, Fahey crudely parodied white
middle-class fascination with African American blues, including his
own. In this book, George Henderson mines Fahey's parallel careers
as essayist, notorious liner note stylist, musicologist, and
fabulist for the first time. These vocations, inspired originally
by Cold War educators' injunction to creatively express rather than
suppress feelings, took utterly idiosyncratic and prescient turns.
Fahey voraciously consumed ideas: in the classroom, the
counterculture, the civil rights struggle, the new left; through
his study of philosophy, folklore, African American blues; and
through his experience with psychoanalysis and southern
paternalism. From these, he produced a profoundly and unexpectedly
refracted vision of America. To read Fahey is to vicariously
experience devastating critical energies and self-soothing
uncertainty, passions emerging from a singular location-the place
where lone, white rebel sentiment must regard the rebellion of
others. Henderson shows the nuance, contradictions, and sometimes
brilliance of Fahey's words that, though they were never sung to a
tune, accompanied his music.
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