Moral Geographies: Ethics in a World of Difference

David M. Smith

Preface1) Introduction: Geography, Morality and EthicsMoral values in geographyEthics, morality and moral philosophyThe significance of differenceThe approach2) The Historical Geography of Morality and EthicsThe significance of contextAn outline historical geographyMoral differences and similarities3) Landscape, Location and Place: Moral OrderMoral readings of landscape, location and placeThe moral geography of the industrial cityA moral geography of absence: the Lodz ghetto4) Proximity: Locality and CommunityLocality and partialityCommunity and moralityAn ethic of careLimitations of locality, community and partialityA premodern community: the shtetl5) Distance: The Scope of BeneficenceReconstituting communityExtending the scope of careCombining the ethics of care and justiceThe contextual experience of moral learningA moral geography of genocide and rescue: the Holocaust6) Space and Territory: Who Should be WhereInclusion and exclusionClaims to territory: promised land?Multiculturalism and minority rightsContesting local space: whose Jerusalem?7) Distribution: Territorial Social JusticeDistribution and differenceThe place of good fortuneHuman sameness, needs and rightsSocial justiceUniversality and particularity8) Development: Ethical PerspectivesIntroducing development ethicsDevelopment after apartheidAlternative development ethics: a new South Africa?9) Nature: Environmental EthicsIntroducing environmental ethicsEnvironmental equity and justiceSustainable developmentCommunity, care and the future10) Conclusion: Towards Geographically Sensitive EthicsA world of differenceContext-sensitive moral knowledgeTowards a better worldOn moral motivationBibliographyIndex