| Critical human geography is: A diverse and rapidly changing set of ideas and practices within human geography linked by a shared commitment to emancipator politics within and beyond the discipline, to the promotion of progressive social change and to the development of a broad range of critical theories and their application in geographical research and political practice. In more detail, critical human geography involves: Opposition to unequal and oppressive power relations. Critical human geographers emphasize the roles played by social relations of domination and resistance in the production and reproduction of place, space, and landscape. Development and application of critical theories. Critical human geography is marked by conceptual pluralism and an openness to a wide range of critical theoretical approaches, including anarchism, environmentalism, feminism, Marxism, post-Marxism, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis. Commitment to social justice and transformative politics. Critical human geographers typically espouse political commitments within and beyond the academy that emphasize resistance to unequal power relations and seek to contribute to political struggles and social movements that aim to promote social justice and to transform the social structures and practices that reproduce domination. This description was taken from The Dictionary of Human Geography (2000), R.J. Johnson, D. Gregory, G. Pratt, and M. Watts (Eds.), Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK. |