Moral geographies (a term coined by Felix Driver) are, according to David Smith (2000), the studying of human geography with a normative emphasis. The kind of questions that are examined including asking whether distance from a phenomenon lessons one's duty, whether there is a substantial difference between private spaces and public spaces and analysing which moral positions are personal, which are societal, which are absolute and which are relative. One key question is how to respect difference whilst recognizing universal rights.[1][2][3][4]
References
edit- ^ Smith, D. M. (2000). Moral geographies: Ethics in a world of difference. Edinburgh University Press.
- ^ Setten, Gunhild (2020) Moral Landscapes, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Second Edition), Elsevier, Pages 193-198,
- ^ Driver, F. (1988). Moral geographies: social science and the urban environment in mid-nineteenth century England. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 275-287.
- ^ Whitehead, Mark (2003) From Moral Space to the Morality of Scale: the Case of the Sustainable Region, Ethics, Place & Environment, 6:3, 235-257, DOI: 10.1080/1366879042000200642