Trevor Barnes and Eric Sheppard (eds.), Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond – Wiley/Antipode 2019 (two excerpts available)
A wide-ranging and knowledgeable guide to the history of radical geography in North America and beyond.
- Includes contributions from an international group of scholars
- Focuses on the centrality of place, spatial circulation and geographical scale in understanding the rise of radical geography and its spread
- A celebration of radical geography from its early beginnings in the 1950s through to the 1980s, and after
- Draws on oral histories by leaders in the field and private and public archives
- Contains a wealth of never-before published historical material
- Serves as both authoritative introduction and indispensable professional reference
I followed this project and attended some of the AAG conference sessions. Great to see it, but not that it is published by a decidedly non-radical commercial publisher and nor freely available online with Punctum, Open Book Publishers, etc. [in which case, the ‘reach’ would be much greater]. There is a huge contradiction there.
Yes, this could have been done differently. I suppose it’s a good thing it is available in paperback, and I can see the logic of the Antipode series, but there are other options.