Spatial political economy

In 2000, it was David Harvey in an interview who commented with some lamentation that although The Limits to Capital 'was a text that could be built on' it was, sadly in his view, not taken up in that spirit (see Harvey, 1982; Harvey, 2000: 84). The tangible melancholy in this comment seem...

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Published in:Journal of Australian political economy 2017-01 (79), p.21-38
Main Author: Morton, Adam David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capitalism
Centre canadien d'architecture
Economic conditions
Economic life
Economic models
Economics
Geography
Historiography
History
Modernism
Modernity
Monuments
Political aspects
Political economy
Sociological aspects
Spatial analysis
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Summary:In 2000, it was David Harvey in an interview who commented with some lamentation that although The Limits to Capital 'was a text that could be built on' it was, sadly in his view, not taken up in that spirit (see Harvey, 1982; Harvey, 2000: 84). The tangible melancholy in this comment seems somewhat incredulous in the years before and since, given the rightly justified centrality of David Harvey's agenda-setting work in advancing historical-geographical materialism. For many, Harvey delivers the 'hard excavatory work' in providing three cuts to understanding 1) the origin of crises embedded in production; 2) the financial and monetary aspects of the credit system and crisis; and 3) a theory of the geography of uneven development and crises in capitalism. The result, in and beyond The Limits to Capital, is a reading of Marx that offers a spatio-temporal lens on uneven geographical development. Put differently, a combined focus on space and time together reveals the spatiality of power and the command over space as a force in shaping capitalism and the conditions of class struggle.
ISSN:0156-5826
1839-3675