... racial discrimination and the like was increasingly called into question....The quality of life became a focus for academic and political debate.' (Smith, 2000a: 2-3) Smith argues that since the rise of globalisation (2000a: vii) the discipline of human geography has largely fallen into the hands of capitalism. Funding is given to geographers to research how an area can be exploited for substantial economic gain. Is this ethically right? Should geographers use their knowledge of the world to help suffering or to just carry on describing the world as they have been doing for the last century? In this essay we will be look at whether geographers have a moral responsibility to help people in the world they research. We will be doing this by looking at, firstly why we have a moral obligation to help people who are suffering and secondly at Peter Dicken's work on 'the moral geographies of uneven ...

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