Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression

Schmidt, Jeremy J.

Abstract

This report on geography and ethics focusses on the justification of normative evaluations. Justifying why actions are right or wrong often relies on appeals to high-order principles, such as the common good. But this is not always the case, as this report shows by identifying an ethics of anti-oppression that relies instead on struggles against individual and social harms and the conditions that generate them. Through resistance, ethics of anti-oppression also shift the terms of normative justification across a range of considerations within geography and beyond it, from refugees and asylum seekers to food production and blockades against extractive infrastructure.

Citation

Schmidt, J. J. (2023). Geography and ethics II: Justification and the ethics of anti-oppression. Progress in Human Geography, 47(6), 859-869. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231174965

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 22, 2023
• Online Publication Date: May 12, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-12
• Deposit Date: May 16, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: May 16, 2023
• Journal: Progress in Human Geography
• Print ISSN: 0309-1325
• Electronic ISSN: 1477-0288
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 859-869
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231174965
• Keywords: justification, oppression, ethics, blockades, food, mobility
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1174367