critical human geography
The umbrella term for a varied, and varying, group of geographical concepts and procedures centred on opposition to repressive and inequitable power relations: in capitalism, class, colonialism, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, and sexuality. As such, critical geographers stress the role of dominance and confrontation in the production and reproduction of landscape, place, and space. Critical geographers have also turned their attentions to inequalities within academic geography and its learned societies, recognizing the exclusionary nature of both.
The theoretical base of these approaches has been the development of the relationships between critical theoretical approaches—such as environmentalism, feminism, Marxism, panarchism, and post-colonialism—and spatiality. It has been difficult, however, to link these varied insights into an agenda for political resistance to unequal power relations, although most critical geographers stress the importance of grassroots action. Nonetheless, Unwin's words (
