Volume I. Part 1. The Scope and Development of Political Geography Part 2. States and Their Inter... more Volume I. Part 1. The Scope and Development of Political Geography Part 2. States and Their Internal Structure Volume II. Part 1. States in Global Context Part 2. Nature and Political Geography Volume III. Part 1. Identities and Interests in Political Geography Part 2. From Geographie Electorale to the Politics of Democracy Volume IV. Part 1. Conflict, Power and Politics in the City Part 2. The Politics of Geographically Uneven Development
Countries are important features of world geography. Human geographers, though, have tended to ne... more Countries are important features of world geography. Human geographers, though, have tended to neglect them. Some ground rules for developing the geographic study of countries are outlined along with proposals for their theorization.
Rentier capitalism is an idea that has been drawing increasing attention. This article identifies... more Rentier capitalism is an idea that has been drawing increasing attention. This article identifies the incoherence of the idea and then addresses its weaknesses as a critique of contemporary political economy. In the first place, it derives from a view of capitalism which privileges exchange rather than production. This explains its view of the relation between the monopoly control of assets and competition. While there may indeed be a current tendency to invest in assets, that does not necessarily act as a deadweight on production; rather it can act as an incentive to rationalize the labor process with a view to increasing the extraction of surplus value. It is suggested that one of the ways in which industrial capital accommodates itself to increasing rents, license fees and the like, is through a turn to extracting value in its absolute form; which may in then shed light on the stagnation of wage levels that has accompanied the turn to investing in assets.
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2021
The paper positions itself in contrast to some themes in work on local and regional development. ... more The paper positions itself in contrast to some themes in work on local and regional development. These have included an emphasis on policy rather than politics, tendencies to over-generalize across countries, and to abstract from the more global context. The empirical context for the discussion is the shifting character of geographically uneven development since the Second World War: first a convergence and then, after the mid-1970s, a divergence. Convergence is held to be the result of what some have called spatial Keynesianism. The conditions for this and for its demise, resulting in divergence, are traced out with particular reference to how the shifting pressures and opportunities were refracted by the specificities of countries. State form emerges as particularly important in understanding different trajectories, along with a neo-liberal globalisation that has been in contrast to the monetary and trading regime inaugurated by the Bretton Woods agreements.
Countries are important features of world geography. Human geographers, though, have tended to ne... more Countries are important features of world geography. Human geographers, though, have tended to neglect them. Some ground rules for developing the geographic study of countries are outlined along with proposals for their theorization.
Doreen Massey made contributions that command the attention of historical geographical materialis... more Doreen Massey made contributions that command the attention of historical geographical materialists. Although she was close to the left, her work strayed very significantly from Marx. Nevertheless, through her emphases she revealed, intentionally or not, important lacunae in the work of Marxist geography. Methodologically she was close to critical realism. She accepted the idea of separate structures of social relations and patriarchy was one that she emphasized. This put her at odds with Marxist views of the social process as constituted by moments that internalize one another. Her work on space was set in opposition to classical Marxist views, most notably in its insistent particularizing tendency as opposed to one that recognizes particularity but also the way in which it gets structured by the capitalist social process as a whole. This emphasis is also apparent in her work on uneven development where production and the contradictions entailed by the capitalist mode of production...
Volume I. Part 1. The Scope and Development of Political Geography Part 2. States and Their Inter... more Volume I. Part 1. The Scope and Development of Political Geography Part 2. States and Their Internal Structure Volume II. Part 1. States in Global Context Part 2. Nature and Political Geography Volume III. Part 1. Identities and Interests in Political Geography Part 2. From Geographie Electorale to the Politics of Democracy Volume IV. Part 1. Conflict, Power and Politics in the City Part 2. The Politics of Geographically Uneven Development
Countries are important features of world geography. Human geographers, though, have tended to ne... more Countries are important features of world geography. Human geographers, though, have tended to neglect them. Some ground rules for developing the geographic study of countries are outlined along with proposals for their theorization.
Rentier capitalism is an idea that has been drawing increasing attention. This article identifies... more Rentier capitalism is an idea that has been drawing increasing attention. This article identifies the incoherence of the idea and then addresses its weaknesses as a critique of contemporary political economy. In the first place, it derives from a view of capitalism which privileges exchange rather than production. This explains its view of the relation between the monopoly control of assets and competition. While there may indeed be a current tendency to invest in assets, that does not necessarily act as a deadweight on production; rather it can act as an incentive to rationalize the labor process with a view to increasing the extraction of surplus value. It is suggested that one of the ways in which industrial capital accommodates itself to increasing rents, license fees and the like, is through a turn to extracting value in its absolute form; which may in then shed light on the stagnation of wage levels that has accompanied the turn to investing in assets.
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2021
The paper positions itself in contrast to some themes in work on local and regional development. ... more The paper positions itself in contrast to some themes in work on local and regional development. These have included an emphasis on policy rather than politics, tendencies to over-generalize across countries, and to abstract from the more global context. The empirical context for the discussion is the shifting character of geographically uneven development since the Second World War: first a convergence and then, after the mid-1970s, a divergence. Convergence is held to be the result of what some have called spatial Keynesianism. The conditions for this and for its demise, resulting in divergence, are traced out with particular reference to how the shifting pressures and opportunities were refracted by the specificities of countries. State form emerges as particularly important in understanding different trajectories, along with a neo-liberal globalisation that has been in contrast to the monetary and trading regime inaugurated by the Bretton Woods agreements.
Countries are important features of world geography. Human geographers, though, have tended to ne... more Countries are important features of world geography. Human geographers, though, have tended to neglect them. Some ground rules for developing the geographic study of countries are outlined along with proposals for their theorization.
Doreen Massey made contributions that command the attention of historical geographical materialis... more Doreen Massey made contributions that command the attention of historical geographical materialists. Although she was close to the left, her work strayed very significantly from Marx. Nevertheless, through her emphases she revealed, intentionally or not, important lacunae in the work of Marxist geography. Methodologically she was close to critical realism. She accepted the idea of separate structures of social relations and patriarchy was one that she emphasized. This put her at odds with Marxist views of the social process as constituted by moments that internalize one another. Her work on space was set in opposition to classical Marxist views, most notably in its insistent particularizing tendency as opposed to one that recognizes particularity but also the way in which it gets structured by the capitalist social process as a whole. This emphasis is also apparent in her work on uneven development where production and the contradictions entailed by the capitalist mode of production...
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