In 'Geography and Ethics: Journeys in a Moral Terrain', David Smith notes
that: "Place is a fundamental concept in geography."
Indeed. So where is the 'ethics' of this book located? It claims to be
"...dedicated to what geographers have to say about ethics...".
Well, no. Some geographers, in some places. The introduction and conclusion
illustrate the specific location of the authors ethics.
There are 159 references. 92 book references give a place of publication, one
does not. 90 are published in the United States or Britain, one in South
Africa by OUP, and one in Israel. All are in English: two are translations
(Saint-Exupery and Kropotkin).
The 66 journal articles include one in English in a German journal, and one in
Spanish (by David Smith himself). The rest are all in English from North
American or UK journals.
The contributors come from (usually current tenure):
the University of Edinburgh (two contributors)
George Mason University
the University of California, LA
the University of North Carolina
Louisiana State University
the Australian National University
the National University of Ireland, Galway
San Diego State University (two contributors)
the University of Bristol
the National University of Ireland, Maynooth
the University of Melbourne
the University of Kentucky
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
the University of California, Santa Barbara
the University of Colorado
the University of Oklahoma
the University of London (two contributors)
Clark University
the University of Wisconsin.
And one is from Keisin University in Tokyo, but she teaches American Studies
- "particular geographies in English-language texts".
That seems to apply to the ethics also - a very particular Anglo-American,
Anglophone, Atlantic ethics. More on one specific example later. The book,
incidentally, was published in London and New York (Routledge, 1999).
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Paul Treanor
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