J. Richard Peet (born 16 April 1940 in Southport, England) is a retired professor of human geography at the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University 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 PhD 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.
Peet’s areas of interest include social and economic geography, the geography of power, political ecology, liberation ecology, development theory, geography of consciousness and rationality, philosophy and social theory, and critical policy studies.
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 and critical geography. Peet has written extensively on a variety of topics. Along with other authors such as David Harvey 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 and descriptions of problems studied, but rather attempt to propose alternatives. His political economy focus received critique, from feminists and post-capitalist thinkers.[1][2]
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 International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. He was a supporter of the socialist revolution in Grenada, working there prior to the US invasion in 1983.
Peet founded the radical journal of geography, Antipode at Clark University, 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.[3] Peet was an editor until 1985, when the journal was sold to Blackwell, which later became Wiley. He co-edited Economic Geography from 1992-1998. In 2008 he founded a new independent journal, Human Geography: a new radical journal, free of the influence of large publishing houses. It was sold to Sage Publishers, against the ethos of the journal, when he stood down. He was last working on a book on global finance capital.
Appointmentsedit
1967-1972 Assistant Professor, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
1972-1983 Associate Professor, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
1983–2019 Professor, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts
Other appointmentsedit
1978-1980 Senior Research Fellow, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra
1982-1985 Senior Research Fellow, Beijer Institute, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1998 Visiting Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
2004 and 2012 Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Honoursedit
Lifetime Achievement Award, American Association of Geographers, 2018[4]
Personaledit
Peet was married twice, latterly to geographer Elaine Hartwick (1962-2022[5]). He had three children with her and at least one son from his previous marriage. As of 2024, he lives in central Massachusetts.
Publicationsedit
Booksedit
Global Political Ecology edited with Paul Robbins and Michael Watts, London: Routledge 2010
India’s New Economic Policy edited by Waquar Ahmed, Amitabh Kundu and Richad Peet, London: Routledge 2010
Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO re-written and updated, London: Zed Press, 2009
Theories of Development: Arguments, Contentions, Alternatives with Elaine Hartwick, New York: Guilford Press 2009
Geography of Power: The Making of Global Economic Policy, London: Zed Press, 2007.
Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank, and WTO Zed Press, 2003.
Theories of Development with Elaine Hartwick, Guilford, 1999, 2002.
Modern Geographical Thought Blackwell, 1998.
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements (edited with Michael Watts) Routledge, 1996; second revised edition, 2004.
Global Capitalism: Theories of Societal Development Routledge: 1991.
New Models in Geography: The Political Economy Approach (2 Volumes) edited with Nigel Thrift. Unwin Hyman, 1989.
An Introduction to Marxist Theories of Underdevelopment: Papers from the Workshop on Marxist Theories of Underdevelopment, edited. Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, 19-22 November, 1979
International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring: a critical analysis. Allen & Unwin. 1987.
Radical Geography: Alternative Viewpoints on Contemporary Social Issues edited. Maaroufa Press, 1977.
Articlesedit
"Perverse Expertise and the Social Unconscious in the Making of Crisis". In: Meusburger P., Werlen B., Suarsana L. (eds) Knowledge and Action. Springer, Cham. 89-97. 2017
"Capital in the 21st century: Economics as usual" Geoforum 65: 301-303 (2015)
"Comparative Policy Analysis: Introduction" Human Geography 6 (2) (2013): 1-10
"Contradictions of Finance Capitalism" Monthly Review 63 (2011): 18-32
“Making Sense of Globalization” (with E. Hartwick and I Chatterjee), in A Compendium of Economic Geography, London: Sage. ed R Lee, A Leyshon, L McDowell and P. Sunley (2010).
“Ten Pages that Changed the World: Deconstructing Ricardo” Human Geography 2(1): 81-95(www.hugeog.com)
“Global Governance”, “Development: Dependency” (with E Hartwick) and “Radical Geography” and “International Organisations” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Oxford: Elsevier 2009
“Global Development and Finance Institutions” and “Development Governance” in P.A. O’Hara (ed), International Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Volume 2: Economic Policy, GPERU: Perth, 2009: 139-151 and 299-309. http://pohara.homestead.com/Encyclopedia/Volume-2.pdf
“Madness and Civilization: Global Financial Capitalism and the Anti-Poverty Discourse” Human Geography, 1, 1 (2008): 82-91 (www.hugeog.com)
"Deconstructing Free Trade: From Epistemic Communities to Ideological Communities in Struggle” Transactions Institute of British Geographers 32 (2007): 576-580
“Imaginarios de Desenvolvimento” in B. Mancano Fernandes, M. Inez Medeiros Marques and J. C. Suzuki, Geografia Agraria: Teoria e Poder São Paulo: Editora Expressao Popular 2007. pp. 19–37
"Neoliberalism and Nature: The Case of the WTO"(with E. Hartwick), Annals of the Academy of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2003.
"Ideology, Discourse and the Geography of Hegemony: From Socialist to Neoliberal Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa" Antipode 2003. 34:54-84.
"Neoliberalism in South Africa" Globalization, the Third World State and Poverty Alleviation in the Twenty-First Century, ed B. Ikubolajeh Logan. London: Ashgate, 2002.
"There is such a thing as Culture" Antipode 34,2 (2002).
"Neoliberalism or Democratic Development?" Review of International Political Economy (2001), 329-343.
"La Dialectique Spatiale, la geographie Nietschenne, et les politiques de la difference" ("Spatial Dialectics, Nietzschean Geography and the Politics of Difference") in G. Benko (ed.) Geographie, Economie, Societé 3,2 (2001), 369-79.
"Teaching Global Society" Radical Teacher 62 (2001), pp. 8–10.
"La Production Culturelle de Forms Economiques" in J-F Staszak et al. (eds) Geographies Anglo-Saxonnes Paris: Belin (2001), pp. 90–204.
"Celebrating Thirty Years of Radical Geography" Environment and Planning A. Vol.27 (2000).
"Culture, Imaginary and Rationality in Regional Economic Development" Environment and Planning A Vol. 27 (2000), 1215-1234.
"Les Regions de la Difference, Les Espaces de la nouveaute: Aspects Culturels de la Theorie de la Regulation" ("Regions of Difference, Spaces of the New: Cultural Aspects of Regulation Theory") Geographie, Economie, Societé 1 (1999), 7-24.
"Culture, Consumption and Experience in Global Capitalism" in Proceedings 23rd Annual Third World Conference 1998.
"The Cultural Construction of Economic Forms" in Roger Lee and Jane Wills, Geographies of Economies London: Arnold 1997.
"Social Theory, Postmodernism and the Critique of Development" in G.B. Benko and U. Strohmeyer (Eds) Space and Social Theory Blackwell, 1997.
"Re-Encountering Development as Discourse", New Political Economy (1997) 2, 2 341-347.
"Spatial Dialectics, Nietzschean Geography and the Politics of Difference" in G. Benko (Ed.) Espace et Postmodernité Paris: L'Harmattan 1997.
"The Postmodern Critique of Development" in Anpege: Lugar, Formacao, Socioespacial Mundo São Paulo. 1996 (in Portuguese).
"The Cultural Production of Economic Rationality in New England" 1996 NESTVAL Proceedings.
"Discursive Idealism in the ‘Landscape as Text' School" The Professional Geographer 1996.
"A Sign Taken for History: Daniel Shays Memorial in Petersham, Massachusetts" Annals, Association of American Geographers 86, 1 (1996), 21-43.
"Mapas do Mundo no fim da Historia" ("Maps of the World at the End of History") in Milton Santos et al. (Eds), O Novo Mapa do Mund Fim de Secula E Globalizacao São Paulo, Brazil: 1993, 46-65.
"Introduction: Development Theory and Environment in an Age of Market Triumphalism"(with Michael Watts), Economic Geography 69, 3 (1993), 227-253.
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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This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification Please help by adding reliable sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page especially if potentially libelous Find sources Richard Peet news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message J Richard Peet born 16 April 1940 in Southport England is a retired professor of human geography at the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University 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 PhD 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 Contents 1 Scholarly contributions 2 Appointments 2 1 Other appointments 3 Honours 4 Personal 5 Publications 5 1 Books 5 2 Articles 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksScholarly contributions editPeet s areas of interest include social and economic geography the geography of power political ecology liberation ecology development theory geography of consciousness and rationality philosophy and social theory and critical policy studies 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 and critical geography Peet has written extensively on a variety of topics Along with other authors such as David Harvey 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 and descriptions of problems studied but rather attempt to propose alternatives His political economy focus received critique from feminists and post capitalist thinkers 1 2 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 International Monetary Fund the World Bank and the World Trade Organization He was a supporter of the socialist revolution in Grenada working there prior to the US invasion in 1983 Peet founded the radical journal of geography Antipode at Clark University 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 3 Peet was an editor until 1985 when the journal was sold to Blackwell which later became Wiley He co edited Economic Geography from 1992 1998 In 2008 he founded a new independent journal Human Geography a new radical journal free of the influence of large publishing houses It was sold to Sage Publishers against the ethos of the journal when he stood down He was last working on a book on global finance capital Appointments edit1967 1972 Assistant Professor Clark University Worcester Massachusetts 1972 1983 Associate Professor Clark University Worcester Massachusetts 1983 2019 Professor Clark University Worcester Massachusetts Other appointments edit 1978 1980 Senior Research Fellow Research School of Pacific Studies Australian National University Canberra 1982 1985 Senior Research Fellow Beijer Institute Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1998 Visiting Professor University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa 2004 and 2012 Visiting Erskine Fellow University of Canterbury Christchurch New ZealandHonours editLifetime Achievement Award American Association of Geographers 2018 4 Personal editPeet was married twice latterly to geographer Elaine Hartwick 1962 2022 5 He had three children with her and at least one son from his previous marriage As of 2024 he lives in central Massachusetts Publications editBooks edit Global Political Ecology edited with Paul Robbins and Michael Watts London Routledge 2010 India s New Economic Policy edited by Waquar Ahmed Amitabh Kundu and Richad Peet London Routledge 2010 Unholy Trinity The IMF World Bank and WTO re written and updated London Zed Press 2009 Theories of Development Arguments Contentions Alternatives with Elaine Hartwick New York Guilford Press 2009 Geography of Power The Making of Global Economic Policy London Zed Press 2007 Unholy Trinity The IMF World Bank and WTO Zed Press 2003 Theories of Development with Elaine Hartwick Guilford 1999 2002 Modern Geographical Thought Blackwell 1998 Liberation Ecologies Environment Development Social Movements edited with Michael Watts Routledge 1996 second revised edition 2004 Global Capitalism Theories of Societal Development Routledge 1991 New Models in Geography The Political Economy Approach 2 Volumes edited with Nigel Thrift Unwin Hyman 1989 An Introduction to Marxist Theories of Underdevelopment Papers from the Workshop on Marxist Theories of Underdevelopment edited Department of Human Geography Research School of Pacific Studies Australian National University Canberra A C T Australia 19 22 November 1979 International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring a critical analysis Allen amp Unwin 1987 Radical Geography Alternative Viewpoints on Contemporary Social Issues edited Maaroufa Press 1977 Articles edit Perverse Expertise and the Social Unconscious in the Making of Crisis In Meusburger P Werlen B Suarsana L eds Knowledge and Action Springer Cham 89 97 2017 Capital in the 21st century Economics as usual Geoforum 65 301 303 2015 Comparative Policy Analysis Introduction Human Geography 6 2 2013 1 10 Contradictions of Finance Capitalism Monthly Review 63 2011 18 32 Marxism in the future of Nepal Republica 2010 01 01 http www myrepublica com portal index php action news details amp news id 13511 Making Sense of Globalization with E Hartwick and I Chatterjee in A Compendium of Economic Geography London Sage ed R Lee A Leyshon L McDowell and P Sunley 2010 Ten Pages that Changed the World Deconstructing Ricardo Human Geography 2 1 81 95 www hugeog com Global Governance Development Dependency with E Hartwick and Radical Geography and International Organisations International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Oxford Elsevier 2009 Global Development and Finance Institutions and Development Governance in P A O Hara ed International Encyclopedia of Public Policy Volume 2 Economic Policy GPERU Perth 2009 139 151 and 299 309 http pohara homestead com Encyclopedia Volume 2 pdf Madness and Civilization Global Financial Capitalism and the Anti Poverty Discourse Human Geography 1 1 2008 82 91 www hugeog com Deconstructing Free Trade From Epistemic Communities to Ideological Communities in Struggle Transactions Institute of British Geographers 32 2007 576 580 Review Article Nepal s Geography of Underdevelopment Monthly Review 2007 59 6 52 58 Imaginarios de Desenvolvimento in B Mancano Fernandes M Inez Medeiros Marques and J C Suzuki Geografia Agraria Teoria e Poder Sao Paulo Editora Expressao Popular 2007 pp 19 37 Neoliberalism and Nature The Case of the WTO with E Hartwick Annals of the Academy of Social and Behavioral Sciences 2003 Ideology Discourse and the Geography of Hegemony From Socialist to Neoliberal Development in Post Apartheid South Africa Antipode 2003 34 54 84 Neoliberalism in South Africa Globalization the Third World State and Poverty Alleviation in the Twenty First Century ed B Ikubolajeh Logan London Ashgate 2002 Poststructural Thought Policing with Elaine Hartwick Economic Geography 78 1 2002 87 88 There is such a thing as Culture Antipode 34 2 2002 Neoliberalism or Democratic Development Review of International Political Economy 2001 329 343 La Dialectique Spatiale la geographie Nietschenne et les politiques de la difference Spatial Dialectics Nietzschean Geography and the Politics of Difference in G Benko ed Geographie Economie Societe 3 2 2001 369 79 Teaching Global Society Radical Teacher 62 2001 pp 8 10 La Production Culturelle de Forms Economiques in J F Staszak et al eds Geographies Anglo Saxonnes Paris Belin 2001 pp 90 204 Celebrating Thirty Years of Radical Geography Environment and Planning A Vol 27 2000 Culture Imaginary and Rationality in Regional Economic Development Environment and Planning A Vol 27 2000 1215 1234 Les Regions de la Difference Les Espaces de la nouveaute Aspects Culturels de la Theorie de la Regulation Regions of Difference Spaces of the New Cultural Aspects of Regulation Theory Geographie Economie Societe 1 1999 7 24 Culture Consumption and Experience in Global Capitalism in Proceedings 23rd Annual Third World Conference 1998 The Cultural Construction of Economic Forms in Roger Lee and Jane Wills Geographies of Economies London Arnold 1997 Social Theory Postmodernism and the Critique of Development in G B Benko and U Strohmeyer Eds Space and Social Theory Blackwell 1997 Re Encountering Development as Discourse New Political Economy 1997 2 2 341 347 Spatial Dialectics Nietzschean Geography and the Politics of Difference in G Benko Ed Espace et Postmodernite Paris L Harmattan 1997 The Postmodern Critique of Development in Anpege Lugar Formacao Socioespacial Mundo Sao Paulo 1996 in Portuguese The Cultural Production of Economic Rationality in New England 1996 NESTVAL Proceedings Discursive Idealism in the Landscape as Text School The Professional Geographer 1996 A Sign Taken for History Daniel Shays Memorial in Petersham Massachusetts Annals Association of American Geographers 86 1 1996 21 43 Discourse Text Location Theory Economic Geography 70 3 1994 297 302 Mapas do Mundo no fim da Historia Maps of the World at the End of History in Milton Santos et al Eds O Novo Mapa do Mund Fim de Secula E Globalizacao Sao Paulo Brazil 1993 46 65 Introduction Development Theory and Environment in an Age of Market Triumphalism with Michael Watts Economic Geography 69 3 1993 227 253 References edit Audrey Kobayashi Peet R International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift eds 2009 Elsevier pp 114 115 Graham Julie 2006 Anti essentialism and Overdetermination A Response to Dick Peet Antipode 24 2 141 156 http doi org 10 1111 j 1467 8330 1992 tb00434 x Peet Richard Chatterjee Ipsita Susman Paul 2021 Farewell Phil O Keefe Human Geography 14 3 4 doi 10 1177 1942778620973841 AAG Announces the 2018 AAG Honors 12 December 2017 Institute of Human Geography Obituaries Further reading editAudrey Kobayashi Peet R International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift eds 2009 Elsevier pp 114 115 Steinberg Philip E Peet Richard 1940 Encyclopedia of Geography Ed Barney Warf Thousand Oaks CA SAGE 2010 2145 SAGE Reference Online Web 6 Feb 2012External links editFaculty Biography Curriculum Vitae Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Richard Peet amp oldid 1216705188, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
