{"product_id":"the-point-is-to-change-it-isbn-9781405198349","title":"The Point Is To Change It","description":"Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of \u003ci\u003eAntipode: A Radical Journal of Geography\u003c\/i\u003e, 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  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about them\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eApplies 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTheoretically diverse - a range of perspectives are put to work ranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchism\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of the present and future world order\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Point Is To Change It\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Point Is To Change It\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNoel Castree, Paul Chatterton, Nik Heynen, Wendy Larner and Melissa W. Wright 1\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Now and Then\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael J. Watts 10\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Idea of Socialism: From 1968 to the Present-day Crisis\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHugo Radice 27\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Revolutionary Imperative\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNeil Smith 50\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTania Murray Li 66\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Postneoliberalism and Its Malcontents\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJamie Peck, Nik Theodore and Neil Brenner 94\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 D\/developments after the Meltdown\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGillian Hart 117\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Is the Globalization Consensus Dead?\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRobert Wade 142\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Uses of Neoliberalism\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJames Ferguson 166\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Crisis, Continuity and Change: Neoliberalism, the Left and the Future of Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNoel Castree 185\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Money Games: Currencies and Power in the Contemporary World Economy\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Agnew 214\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Pre-Black Futures\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKatharyne Mitchell 239\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Shape of Capitalism to Come\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePaul Cammack 262\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Who Counts? Dilemmas of Justice in a Postwestphalian World\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNancy Fraser 281\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Communist Hypothesis and Revolutionary Capitalisms: Exploring the Idea of Communist Geographies for the 21st Century\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eErik Swyngedouw 298\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJ. K. Gibson-Graham and Gerda Roelvink 320\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 347\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e“In all, an applaudable work of thoughtful scholarship.”  (\u003ci\u003eSwedish Society for Anthropology \u0026amp; Geography\u003c\/i\u003e, 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eNoel Castree\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor in the School of Environment and Development, Manchester University.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Chatterton\u003c\/b\u003e directs the MA for Social Activism at the University of Leeds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNik Heynen\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Larner\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor of Geography at Bristol University who works on globalisation and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa W. Wright\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor in the Geography and Women's Studies at The Pennsylvania State University.\u003c\/p\u003e As critical social scientists are apt to say, following Marx, the point of our work is not simply to interpret the world but to change it. In the early 21st century this declaration rings truer than ever. Global economic crisis, transnational environmental problems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, proliferating natural disasters, the forced displacement of whole populations, manufactured scarcities of fuel and food: these and other equally momentous issues demand the right combination of diagnostic and normative reasoning  \u003ci\u003eThe Point is to Change It\u003c\/i\u003e brings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about them. 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