Justice, nature, and the geography of difference / David Harvey.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 440-455) and index.

Thoughts for a Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Militant Particularism and Global Ambition -- 2. Dialectics -- 3. The Leibnizian Conceit -- 4. The Dialectics of Discourse -- 5. Historical Agency and the Loci of Social Change -- 6. The Domination of Nature and its Discontents -- 7. Valuing Nature -- 8. The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change -- 9. The Social Construction of Space and Time -- 10. The Currency of Space-Time -- 11. From Space to Place and Back Again -- 12. Class Relations, Social Justice, and the Political Geography of Difference -- 13. The Environment of Justice -- 14. Possible Urban Worlds -- Thoughts for an Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seek new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation to each other. It describes how geographical differences are produced, and shows how they then become fundamental to the exploration of political, economic and ecological alternatives to contemporary life. Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference speaks to a wide readership of students of social, cultural and spatial theory and of the dynamics of contemporary life. It is a convincing demonstration that it is both possible and necessary to value difference and to seek a just social order.

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