Imagining safe urban space: the contribution of detective fiction to radical geography
Criminality ; Perception ; Public order ; Radical geography ; Security ; Town ; Urban area ; Urban environment
There are many conflicting and mutually exclusive strategies for addressing poverty, sexism, racism and violence. They are often underlaid by a pervasive pessimism. The A. proposes that radical geographers consider the role of detective fiction
in vusualizing a safe city. He shows how the limitations of individualism found in this fiction can also apply to attempts to develop a radical agenda for urban reform and regeneration.
The end of geography and radical politics in Baudrillard's philosophy
for geography and politics. He argues that because the representational imaginary is obliterated in simulation it is the end of geography and radical politics which Baudrillard's work presents.
The article takes issue with a mode of argumentation advanced by a number of left-learning, radical scholars, about the causes of the Tibetan unrest in China in spring 2008. According to this stance, the Tibetan protests are the result of external
manipulation by neoconservative, reactionary forces, ranging from the CIA to the Dalai Lama. A radical stance on Western imperialism and capitalism should reject such reductionism.