The Point Is To Change It

Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of <i>Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography</i>, this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change it <ul> <li>Brings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about them</li> <li>Applies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issues including the global economic crisis, transnational environmental problems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, and proliferating natural disasters</li> <li>Theoretically diverse – a range of perspectives are put to work ranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchism</li> <li>The chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of the present and future world order</li> </ul>