From a = b to a = a

Gunnar Olsson
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Gunnar Olsson: Kulturgeografiska institutionen, Uppsala universitet, Box 1003, SE-751 40 Uppsala, Sweden

Environment and Planning A, 2000, vol. 32, issue 7, 1235-1244

Abstract: In this paper I compare and contrast the alternative treatments of the Other as they appear first in the radical geography of 1968, then in the political geography of 1998. While in the Hegelian sixties both the master and the slave recognized that they are defined in terms of each other (a = b), the politically correct of the nineties are claiming that the right to define who you are is yours and yours alone (a = a). But whoever argues that the only acceptable truth lies in the statement “I am who I am†is in effect adopting the same conception of power that the Old Testament JHWH reserved for himself.

Date: 2000
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