Changing what exactly,and from where? A response to Castree

Abstract

Castree’s essay advocates for geographers to engage directly, and critically, with the new international networks and institutions giving shape and direction to the Anthropocene narrative. Reflecting on my own career in-and-out of geography, I suggest that such ‘fifth column’ activity is not for all geographers. Social change originates across many diverse venues, and the intellectual seeds of critical geographers seeking change to material practices and in cultural configurations need scattering to the winds, not merely planting in managed furrows.

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Careers co-production cultural change geography Future Earth

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