Alison Blunt and Jane Wills (2000) Dissident Geographies: an Introduction to Radical Ideas and Practice (pearson Education, Harlow)

Dissident Geographies is an ambitious project. In the space of 212 pages Alison Blunt and Jane Wills introduce no less than five radical traditions: mapping the significance that anarchism, Marxism, feminism, the politics of sexuality and postcolonialism have had within and beyond academia. The book lives up to the necessary challenge of being concise whilst not shirking from complex issues. Given the wide remit of the book, it is of course possible to quibble about some of the finer detail and point to areas of neglect. However, an over zealous critique of this nature would detract from the book’s many strengths.