The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities [electronic resource] : Geographical Inequalities Between Science and Propaganda / by Ferenc Gyuris.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783319015088
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/7304
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2014.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XV, 381 p. 41 illus. online resource.
Dizi
Contributions to Political Science, 2198-7297
İçindekiler Notu
Introduction -- The Debate Over Social Disparities and the Disparity Discourse -- Social Disparities Meet Space and Concepts Surrounding It -- A Contextual Analysis of the Emergence of Spatial Disparity Research -- Spatial Disparity Analysis and Anti-Capitalism: The "Classical" Marxist Tradition -- Non-Marxist Reactions to the Marxist Problematizations of Spatial Unevenness -- Spatial Disparity Research After the Initial Decades of Cold War: End of the "Golden Age" -- And Yet Spatial Disparity is a Problem of Capitalism: Leftist Approaches in a Post-Fordist World -- Political Functioning of the Spatial Disparity Discourse: A summary -- Conclusion -- What to Do with the Discourse on Spatial Disparities? A normative Outlook -- References.
Özet, vb.
This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of the issue. Instead, related theories are investigated in their political, economic, and social contexts, and spatial disparity research is presented as a political discourse. The book reveals how the propagandistic problematization or de-problematization of geographical inequalities serves the substantiation of political goals, while taking advantage of the legitimate authority of science and the image of scientific objectivity. It also explains how the discourse has functioned from 19th century social physics over the Cold War period up to Marxist geographies of the current neoliberal age, and in what way and to what extent political considerations prevent related concepts producing ‘objective’ knowledge about the complex phenomenon of spatial inequalities.
Konu
Human geography.
Communication in politics.
Economic geography.
Regional economics.
Spatial economics.
Economics __ History.
Human Geography.
Political Communication.
Economic Geography.
Regional and Spatial Economics.
History of Economic Thought and Methodology.
Communication in politics.
Economic geography.
Regional economics.
Spatial economics.
Economics __ History.
Human Geography.
Political Communication.
Economic Geography.
Regional and Spatial Economics.
History of Economic Thought and Methodology.
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