Professor Richard Peet has a BSc (Economics) from the London School of Economics, an MA from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph D from the University of California, Berkeley. His areas of interest include: social and economic geography, political ecology, liberation ecology, development theory, geography of consciousness and rationality, philosophy and social theory, iconography, semiotics, and critical policy studies. Courses OfferedGeog 127 Political Economy of Third World Underdevelopment
Geog 289 Development Policy
Geog 318 Explanation in Geography
IDND 066 Global Society Current Research and Teaching1. The Cultural Production of Social Forms of Economic Rationality
2. Critique of ANC development policy in South Africa
3. Critique of Global Governance Institutions Selected PublicationsRecent Books 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. Recent Articles
"Neoliberalism and Nature: The Case of the WTO," (with E. Hartwick), Academy of Social and Behavioral Sciences, forthcoming 2003. "Ideology, Discourse and the Geography of Hegemony: From Socialist to Neoliberal Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa," Antipode, 2002, 34:54-84. "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'Harmatten 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. (With Michael Watts), "Introduction: Development Theory and Environment in an Age of Market Triumphalism," Economic Geography 69, 3 (1993), 227-253. Reprinted in Modern Classics in Regional Science, Regional Dynamics edited by Kingsley E. Haynes and Peter Nijkamp (Longon: Edward Elgar). 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. "Poststructural Though Policing" (with Elaine Hartwick) Economic Geography, 78,1 (2002), 87-88. "There is such a thing as Culture" Antipode 34,2 (2002). "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. "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. "Neoliberalism or Democratic Development?" Review of International Political Economy ( 2001), 329-343. "Teaching Gobal 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. "Neoliberalism in South Africa" Globalization, the Third World State and Poverty Alleviation in the Twenty-First Century, ed B. Ikubolajeh Logan. London: Ashgate, June 2002. | 
