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Discuss the contribution of geographers in the development of radical geography.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Perspectives in Human Geography

Radical geography is the body of geographical work, crystallising in the USA between 1969 and the mid-1970s, that treats spatial inequality not as a distributional accident but as a necessary product of the capitalist mode of production, and that therefore demands revolutionary theory and revolutionary practice rather than incremental policy repair.

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  • Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus — the Anarchist Ancestry the Movement Reclaimed
  • Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921)
  • Élisée Reclus (1830–1905)
  • William Bunge — the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Radical Cartography
  • David Harvey — the Movement's Central Theorist
  • From spatial science to structural explanation
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