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PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 1-18Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1191/030913200671792325
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equality; ethics; justice; morality; progress
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Recognition of the place of good fortune in people's lives occupies an important place in the liberal egalitarian perspective on social justice. Elaboration of this notion sets the scene for a discussion of three senses of moral progress in human geography. The first is the creation of a more equal world, in which the morally arbitrary contingencies of good or bad fortune are transcended. The second is the undertaking of geographical research which might promote a process of equalization. The third is the pursuit of professional practice and institutions sensitive to the needs of persons in places of misfortune. Moral progress in human geography involves a spatially extensive ethic of care, to combat contemporary forces encouraging parochialism and the perpetuation sf inequality.
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