Abstract
There is little consensus about the characteristics of critical geography. The term emerged in the 1970s to refer to Marxist‐influenced geographical works that sought to highlight – and confront – inequalities stemming from the operation of the capitalist system. The theoretical and practical lens of the field widened in subsequent years as feminist, postcolonial, antiracist, and anarchist geographers developed critical perspectives that could illuminate various forms of oppression and marginalization. These moves required a twin focus on the forms of representation through which powerful agencies mask the operation of power while also pointing to the embodied and situated nature of human experience – insights that may provide the basis for forms of resistance. Contestation remains, however, as scholars challenge the extent to which critical geography operates as a distinct field of inquiry and whether academic inquiry can bring about the kinds of transformative politics that critical perspectives desire.
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