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As radical geography, inflected by Marx, has transformed into critical geography, influenced by poststructuralism and feminism, dialectical reasoning has come under attack from some poststructural geographers. Their construction of dialectics as inconsistent with poststructural thinking, difference, and assemblages is based, however, on a Hegelian conception of the dialectic. This Hegelian imaginary reflects the intellectual history of radical and/or critical anglophone geography. Yet, dialectics can be read in a non-Hegelian, much less totalizing and ideological, and more geographical way. This broader reading opens up space for considering parallels between dialectics, the assemblages of Deleuze and Guattari, and aspects of complexity theory.

Representing an innovative approach to the analysis of the economic geography of capitalism, this stimulating book develops an analytical political economic framework. Part 1 provides an introductory overvi9ew fo some of the fundamental debates about price, profits and value in economics which underlie the analytical political economy approach. Part 2 analyzes the special role of space and transportation in commodity production and the spatial organization of the economy that this implies. Parts 3 and 4 examine the conflicting goals and actions of different social clases and individuals and ho

AbstractWe propose an epistemology for conjunctural inter-urban comparison, stressing the dialectical relationship between the general and the particular. We spatialise conjunctural analysis, avoiding methodological territorialism by extending the explanatory framework outwards in space to incorporate inter-territorial connections and supra-territorial scalar relations. We then provide three guiding principles for conjunctural comparison: an open starting point, a three-dimensional socio-spatial ontology and the general/particular dialectic. Illustrating this with comparative fieldwork on urban land transformations in Jakarta and Bangalore, we stress-test received theories and develop Inter-scalar Chains of Rentiership: this mid-range concept clarifies shared tendencies across the cities, particularities differentiating them and their inter-relations.

Across cities of the global South, major initiatives are underway to assemble land from informal settlements in order to make it available for large-scale infrastructure and commercial real estate projects. Driven by global city aspirations, profit-seeking developers, demands from emergent middle classes for modern residential, consumption and recreational spaces, and, last but not least, the availability of finance, these land transformations seek to commodify and enclose residential urban commons and involve the displacement of thousands of urban residents. Through an examination of two field sites, a 'legal' kampung where land is being acquired through negotiations between kampung residents with land rights and developers' land brokers, and two 'illegal' kampungs whose residents were evicted in the name of flood mitigation, we conclude that the default theory for explaining these processes—accumulation by dispossession—is inadequate for capturing the variegated and complex nature of such processes. By thinking through Jakarta, we seek to provincialize the dominant concept of accumulation by dispossession, proposing an extension that we suggest is better attuned to capture the distinct features of Southern cities: Contested accumulations through displacement.

AbstractAdvocating a provincialization of critical urban theory, we seek to move beyond current polarizations and disputes over the basis of urban theory, creating space to take seriously the possibility that no single theory suffices to account for the variegated nature of urbanization and cities across the world. Such provincialization requires a serious engagement with both mainstream and critical Anglophone urban theory, challenging the seeming naturalness of knowledge claims through rigorous theoretical and empirical scrutiny from the standpoint of peripheral perspectives located outside the core. This entails recognizing the existence of a shifting ecosystem of critical urban theories, putting these into even‐handed critical conversation with one another. The collective resilience of urban theory will be dependent upon ongoing engagement across such diversity. At the heart of such an ecosystem are shifts in practice, seeking a new comparative analytic that destabilizes the universalism of the dominant norm, against which all other exemplars are to be compared, with the imperative of taking the field seriously.

Machine generated contents note: List of Figures Notes on Contributors Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgement Introduction Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard Part I Radical geography within North America 1. Issues of 'Race' and Early Radical Geography: Our invisible proponents Audrey Kobayashi 2. Myths, Cults, Memories, and Revisions in Radical Geographic History: Revisiting the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute Gwendolyn C. Warren, Cindi Katz, and Nik Heynen 3. Radical Paradoxes: The making of Antipode at Clark University Matthew T. Huber, Chris Knudson, and Renee Tapp 4. A 'necessary stop on the circuit': Radical geography at Simon Fraser University Nik Blomley and Eugene McCann 5. The Life and Times of the Union of Socialist Geographers Linda Peake 6. Baltimore as Truth Spot: David Harvey, Johns Hopkins and urban activism Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes 7. Berkeley in-between: Radicalizing economic geography Jamie Peck and Trevor J. Barnes 8. Radical Geography in the Upper Midwest Mickey Lauria, Bryan Higgins, Mark Bouman, Kent Mathewson, Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard 9. Radical geography goes Francophone Juan-Luis Klein Part II Radical geography beyond North America 10. Japan: The Yada faction versus North American radical geography Fujio Mizuoka 11. The Rise and Decline of Radical Geography in South Africa Brij Maharaj 12. The Geographies of Critical Geography: The development of critical geography in Mexico Veronica Crossa 13. 'Let's here [sic] it for the Brits, You help us here': North American radical geography and British radical geography education Joanne Norcup 14. 'Can these words, commonly applied to the Anglo-Saxon social sciences, fit the French?' Circulation, translation and reception of radical geography in the French academic context Yann Calberac Conclusion Eric Sheppard and Trevor J. Barnes Index.

Introduction: the art of economic geography / Trevor J. Barnes and Eric Sheppard -- Inventing Anglo-American economic geography, 1889 -1960 -- Modeling tradition / Paul S. Plummer -- Marxian alternative: historical-geographical materialism and the political economy of capitalism / Erik Swyngedouw -- Feminism and economic geography: gendering work and working gender / Ann M. Oberhauser -- Institutional approaches in economic geography / Ron Martin -- Poststructural interventions / J.K. Gibson-Graham -- Geography of production

AbstractUrban entrepreneurialism and neoliberal urban governance are assuming new forms under finance‐dominated accumulation. We examine and contribute to theorizing the mechanisms through which urban governance is financialized, taking as a case study JESSICA, one of the European Union's initiatives to implement an 'urban sensitive' policy for sustainable and integrated development. Like other initiatives promoting financialization, JESSICA deploys the logic of finance to select and fund urban social initiatives and development projects on the basis of their potential return on investment (ROI). Understanding this process requires placing questions of political economy—how urban governance is shaped by the broader political‐economic context—with questions of governmentality—how stakeholders are enrolled in and come to take for granted new governance initiatives. Following the multi‐scalar institutional infrastructure is crucial to understanding how this works. Taking a relational multi‐scalar approach, we trace how changes at the supranational scale filter down to shape urban policy selection and performance in Sofia, Bulgaria, where we document how ROI calculations conflict with social welfare priorities. Contrasts between the trajectory of financialization of urban governance in the European Union and the United States demonstrate how this is geographically variegated, shaped by the broader context/conjuncture within which such financialization is embedded.

Relationality is a persistent concern of socio-spatial theory, increasingly invoked in geographical scholarship. We bring geographical scholarship on relationality to bear on relational poverty studies, an emergent body of work that challenges mainstream approaches to conceptualizing, explaining, researching and acting upon poverty. We argue that relationality scholarship provides ontological, theoretical, and epistemological interventions that extend prior relational poverty work. We synthesize these three elements to develop an explicitly geographical relationality and show how this framework offers a politics of possibility for knowing and acting on poverty in new ways.