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213:, in 1970 with Ben Wisner and other radical graduate students. It is now one of the top 10 journals in the anglophone world of geography, but until 1978 it was housed in a basement room in the Graduate School of Geography, and until the late 70s, mimeographed from typewritten pages stapled by hand, then distributed by mail to subscribers. Peet was an editor until 1985, when the journal was sold to Blackwell, which later became Wiley. He co-edited 223:, free of the influence of large publishing houses and officially published by the independent Institute of Human Geography. As subscriptions picked up, a fund was established to support radical and activist geographical projects worldwide. It was sold to the neoliberal Sage Publishers, against the ethos of the journal, soon after he stood down, although the fund and the Institute has remained. 25: 174:
Peet’s doctoral research applied von Thunen’s theories to the global expansion of commercial agriculture. However much of his later work was inspired by living in the racially and socially charged situation in America during the 1960s. His early books and articles helped define the field of radical
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he was part of a movement of radical geographers that have drawn on Marxist theory and techniques. He uses the techniques of political economy, looking for interconnections and processes at a variety of scales and over time. Peet believed that geography must do more than simply provide explanations
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During the 1980s and 1990s Peet's focus shifted to the politics and ecology of international development, particularly the systematic underdevelopment of nations peripheral to the capitalist west. His work is critical of neo-liberal development theory and global governance institutions such as the
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in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. He began teaching at Clark University shortly after completing his PhD from Berkeley, remained there for over 50 years, with secondments in Australia, Sweden and New Zealand. He was 'forced' into retirement in 2019, when 79 years old.
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in Worcester MA, USA. Peet received a BSc (Economics) from the London School of Economics, an M.A. from the University of British Columbia, and moved to the USA in the mid-1960s to complete a
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Peet was married twice, latterly to geographer Elaine Hartwick (1962-2022). He had children with her and two sons from his previous marriage. As of 2024, he lives in central Massachusetts.
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and descriptions of problems studied, but rather attempt to propose alternatives. His political economy focus received critique, from feminists and post-capitalist thinkers.
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Steinberg, Philip E. "Peet, Richard (1940-)." Encyclopedia of Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE, 2010. 2145. SAGE Reference Online. Web. 6 Feb. 2012
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International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. He was a supporter of the socialist revolution in
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Ideology, Discourse and the Geography of Hegemony: From Socialist to Neoliberal Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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An Introduction to Marxist Theories of Underdevelopment: Papers from the Workshop on Marxist Theories of Underdevelopment
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and critical geography. Peet has written extensively on a variety of topics. Along with other authors such as
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1978-1980 Senior Research Fellow, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra
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2004 and 2012 Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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Globalization, the Third World State and Poverty Alleviation in the Twenty-First Century
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Peet’s areas of interest include social and economic geography, the geography of power,
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Graham, Julie. 2006. Anti-essentialism and Overdetermination: A Response to Dick Peet.
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1982-1985 Senior Research Fellow, Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1998 Visiting Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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edited by Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu and Richad Peet, London: Routledge 2010
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International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring: a critical analysis
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1972-1983 Associate Professor, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
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1967-1972 Assistant Professor, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
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Radical Geography: Alternative Viewpoints on Contemporary Social Issues
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Perverse Expertise and the Social Unconscious in the Making of Crisis
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Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association of Geographers, 2018
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edited with Paul Robbins and Michael Watts, London: Routledge 2010
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Peet published what he called his last book, a short one entitled
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Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements
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1983–2019 Professor, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
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from 1992-1998. In 2008 he founded a new independent journal,
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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Theories of Development: Arguments, Contentions, Alternatives
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São Paulo: Editora Expressao Popular 2007. pp. 19–37
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Peet, Richard; Chatterjee, Ipsita; Susman, Paul (2021).
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Geography of Power: The Making of Global Economic Policy
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Annals of the Academy of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Review Article “Nepal's Geography of Underdevelopment”
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New Models in Geography: The Political Economy Approach
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http://pohara.homestead.com/Encyclopedia/Volume-2.pdf
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Global Capitalism: Theories of Societal Development
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with Elaine Hartwick, New York: Guilford Press 2009
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