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Article: David Harvey, Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2008
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David Harvey, Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (London: Verso 2006)
DAVID HARVEY IS, arguably, the geographer who has done the most to spatialize Marx over the past four decades, showing how the way in which economic landscapes are made under capitalism is not something which is contingent to the accumulation process but is, rather, central to it. There is, he argues, a dialectic between capitalism's geography and its social organization: how capitalism functions as a social system shapes the economic landscapes produced under it, whilst the form which landscapes take shapes the possibility for accumulation. ...