Critically evaluate contemporary debates from within Human Geography over the issue of geographical engagements with issues of Morality. Then, drawing on examples you have studied examine whether you believe that there is a necessity for a continued enga
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Critically evaluate contemporary debates from within Human Geography over the issue of geographical engagements with issues of Morality. Then, drawing on examples you have studied examine whether you believe that there is a necessity for a continued engagement between the two. The place of morality in the study of human geography is a debate that has gone on since the 1990's. It came about via the evolution of the discipline from the cultural turn. Geography of spatial science which was prominent in the 1960's was slowly becoming redundant because mapping areas just using quantitative techniques did not tell the geographer the total truth about an area. The qualitative geographical analysis of areas, brought about by the 'cultural turn', brought moral issues straight to the attention of geographers. '...at a time when the euphoria of technological progress was being deflated by discovery of the persistence of dire poverty within otherwise affluent societies as...


