Territory, the State and Urban Politics: A Critical Appreciation of the Selected Writings of Kevin R. Cox

ISBN-13: 9781138268005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 248 str.

Andrew Wood; Andrew Jonas

Opis

Highlighting and reflecting on the work of Kevin R. Cox, this book assesses his influence and explores his various contributions to important debates on territory, the state, voting in a spatial context, locational conflict, globalization, scale, local economic development, and urban politics. It also critically examines the ways in which his ideas have been deployed. Moreover, the book establishes and advances a research agenda for future work on urban politics, the state and territory, drawing insights from influential theorists working at the cutting edge of contemporary spatial research.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Andrew Wood, Andrew Jonas