ETHICS IN GEOGRAPHY - GIVING MORAL FORM TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION

Authors
Citation
Jd. Proctor, ETHICS IN GEOGRAPHY - GIVING MORAL FORM TO THE GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION, Area, 30(1), 1998, pp. 8-18
Citations number
129
Categorie Soggetti
Geografhy
Journal title
AreaACNP
ISSN journal
00040894
Volume
30
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
8 - 18
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-0894(1998)30:1<8:EIG-GM>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Geographers have become increasingly interested in questions of ethics . in this paper, I introduce the scope and major concerns of ethics, b riefly reviewing recent literature as a means of situating geography's potential contribution. I then link ethics to the geographical imagin ation by developing a twofold schema representing geography's ontologi cal project and epistemological process, an approach that unites exist ing professional and substantive ethical concerns among geographers. E xamples oi recent work by geographers in these areas are noted. I clos e with a set of broad questions at the interlace of ethics and geograp hy worthy of further reflection.