The rest, as they say, is History.
He said "Crimea River."
I graduated with a minor in Geography, but I mostly focused on GIS and health geography. I'm currently in a grad program for public health. My overarching goal is to better understand the political economic roots of unequal development in cities and then be able to link that to health outcomes. Then with that understanding of the mechanisms of place-based oppression (rather than just the measurable outcomes) work to overcome through community engagement.
I've read Harvey's Rebel Cities and Cuthbert's The Forms of Cities. Both are great but more theory heavy than method heavy. I'm planning on reading Cuthbert's methods book "Understanding Cities", but flipping through it I don't think it will answer all my questions.
The two books I know that touch this area are Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place and Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction. I've heard mixed reviews of Urban Fortunes. The Economic Geography book includes more than just urban political economy, but I figure it would be a good intro considering I have no background on Economic Geography.
Have you heard of or read these books? And/or do you have any other recommendations?
Studying as in either formal or informally.
I can't be the only one, can I? I am older (in my 40's) and have returned to school to finish an undergrad degree I started years ago (before I had kids). I'm majoring in Geography with an emphasis on Urban/Human.
Before learning anything, I was totally on board with capitalism. Now I see how capitalism is eating away at the social benefits of living in an urban environment, and I don't much like it. I guess you could say I'm now somewhat woke and feel like an idiot for ever being completely pro-capitalism.
The only point to my post is to find out who else changed their opinion from being totally 100% for capitalism to being (completely, or somewhat or almost completely) against it?
EDIT: thanks to everyone who has replied, it's really great information for me. Being so new to studies, its now clear I am using words out of context, at least somewhat. I likely meant something different than pure capitalism, but not sure what the proper term is.
What's the big idea here? Yes, things like coding are important, but surely we don't just want a bunch of highly skilled ignoramuses. Knowledge of earth science, geopolitics and history are so important for society.
