Dissident Geographies

Dissident Geographies is a lively and accessible exploration of radical perspectives in human geography, spanning anarchism, marxism, feminism, sexual politics and postcolonialism. While some of these radical views are well established bodies of thought in geography, others are relatively new.

Dissident Geographies seeks to contextualise these radical ideas, situating them in the places where they have developed, before looking at the implications they have for geographical thought and practice. The book has two main aims, First Dissident Geographies introduces a number of geographical traditions that challenge and destabilise what counts as geographical knowledge. Second, the book shows how the production of geographical knowledge is tied to politics and struggles outside, as well as within, the academy.

Dissident Geographies traces the spatiality of political practice and the politics of geographical thought, revealing the connections between power, politics and geographical knowledge.

Alison Blunt and Jane Wills are both Lecturers in Geography at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.