Geopiracy is a study of the 'Bowman expeditions'—a project through which geographers, with funding from the US Army, are mapping the 'human terrain' of foreign lands. Wainwright offers a critique of human geography today that draws on contemporary social theory to raise unsettling questions about the nature of geography's disciplinary formation.

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Joel Wainwright is a human geographer who teaches political economy and social theory at Ohio State University. He has published 32 research articles and book chapters on diverse topics. His first book, entitled Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya, won the Blaut award in 2010 and has been assigned and taught at more than ten research universities.

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Book Title: Geopiracy
Book Subtitle: Oaxaca, Militant Empiricism, and Geographical Thought
Authors: Joel Wainwright
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137301758
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30173-4Published: 30 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30175-8Published: 30 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 108
Topics: Human Geography, European Politics, Geography, general, Political Science, International Relations

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Letters from Oaxaca

Geographers Respond: I

Geographers Respond: II

Geography Counterinsurgent

From Geopiracy to Planetarity

Eight Theses on Geopiracy

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