Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom

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David Harvey is considered to be one of the world's leading geographers and social theorists. Currently director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, he previously held professorial positions at Johns Hopkins University and Oxford University. He is the author of fifteen books, ranging from studies in political economy and cultural change to works on urbanization, uneven geographical development, imperialism, and neoliberalism. His works are translated into more than a dozen languages, including Arabic and Chinese.

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Politicians regularly use noble values to build and justify their policies, so how and why do their policies frequently result in violence and repression, such as Guantanamo Bay?

Inhalt

Preface
Prologue
Part One: Universal Values

1. Kant's Anthropology and Geography
2. The Postcolonial Critique of Liberal Cosmopolitanism
3. The Flat World of Neoliberal Utopianism
4. The New Cosmopolitans
5. The Banality of Geographical Evils
   Part Two: Geographical Knowledges
6. Geographical Reason
7. Spacetime and the World
8. Places, Regions, Territories
9. The Nature of Environment
   Epilogue: Geographical Theory and the Ruses of Geographical Reason
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index