Andrew Wood

Territory, the State and Urban Politics

A Critical Appreciation of the Selected Writings of Kevin R. Cox
Herausgeber: Jonas, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

Following its rise to prominence in the 1990s work on territory, the state and urban politics continues to be a vibrant and dynamic area of academic concern. Focusing heavily on the work of one key influential figure in the development of the field - Kevin R. Cox - this volume draws together a collection of prominent and well established scholars to reflect on the development and state of the field and to establish a research agenda for future work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9780754679981
• ISBN-10: 0754679985
• Artikelnr.: 45154805

Autorenporträt

Andrew Wood, Andrew Jonas

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction: Territory
the state and urban politics in critical perspective
Andrew E.G. Jonas and Andrew Wood; Part I Conceptualizing Space and Territory: from Quantitative Geography to Historical-Geographical Materialism: Kevin Cox and electoral geography
Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie; The local state and urban politics
Mark Goodwin; Marxism
space and the urban question
Kevin R. Cox. Part II Urban Politics and Local Economic Development in Territorial Context: Re-imagining local politics: territorialisation
economic development and locality
Allan Cochrane; Capital accumulation in space
capital-labour relations
and political strategy
Jamie Gough; The urban politics of global cities
Delphine Ancien; Policy transfer in space: entrepreneurial urbanism and the making up of 'urban' politics
Kevin Ward. Part III State
Territory and Difference: Structure
agency and South Africa - some influences of (and on) Kevin Cox
Jeff McCarthy; Political geographies of capitalist development in South Africa
Alistair Fraser; 'Everyday life is situated': politics
space and feminist theory
Kim England. Rejoinder: Territory
the state and urban politics: some reflections
Kevin R. Cox; Index.