Critical geography

Critical geography is theoretically informed social justice, leftist politics. Critical geography is also used as an umbrella term for Marxist, feminist, postmodern, poststructural, queer, left-wing, as alive as activist geography.

Critical geography is one variant of Marx’s thesis to interpret in addition to conform the world. Fay 1987 defines modern critical science as the attempt to understand positivism; an endorsement of a possibility of progress; the claim for the structural dynamics of determinism; as well as a rejection of revolutionary expediency.

Origin

Critical geography in the Anglo-American world rooted in the radical geography that emerged in the early 1970s. Peet 2000 permits an overview of the evolution of radical and critical geography. In the early 1970s, radical geographers tried to transform the scope of the discipline of geography by responding to the great issues of the time: ]

Although closely related, critical geography and radical geography are non interchangeable. Critical geography has two crucial departures from radical geography: 1 a rejection of the structural excess of post-modern turn; and 2 an increasing interest in culture and representation, in contrast to radical geography’s focus on the economy. Peet 2000 notices a rapprochement between critical and radical geography after heated debate in the 1990s. Nevertheless, Castree 2000 posits that critical and radical geography entail different commitments. He contends that the eclipse of radical geography indicates the professionalization and academicization of Left geography, and therefore worries approximately the damage of the "radical" tradition.