Structure, System, and Contradiction in the Capitalist Space Economy
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
- Vol. 9 (4) , 433-449
- https://doi.org/10.1068/d090433
Abstract
A theoretical approach to analysing the capitalist space economy is presented and is applied to the analysis of local economies. Capitalist society itself creates a distinction between ‘structures’, embodying necessary social relations and processes, and ‘systems’, which articulate contingent, external relations, in particular market relations. The development of structures from abstract to concrete forms incorporates space as spatial differentiation and as spatial logic. A specifically Marxist conception of competition in space is developed. On this basis, there is a discussion of the different meanings of ‘local’, the competition and coherence of local economies, and types of contradiction of different spatiality experienced by local economies.Keywords
This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
- Workers' Competition, Class Relations, and SpaceEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1992
- LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION IN LOCALITY STUDIES*Antipode, 1989
- Social Relations and Spatial StructuresPublished by Springer Nature ,1985
- The Geopolitics of CapitalismPublished by Springer Nature ,1985
- The Difference that Space MakesPublished by Springer Nature ,1985
- Social Relations, Space and TimePublished by Springer Nature ,1985
- New Directions in SpacePublished by Springer Nature ,1985
- Time, Space and RegionalisationPublished by Springer Nature ,1985
- Central Problems in Social TheoryPublished by Bloomsbury Academic ,1979
- The Individual as Basic Unit of AnalysisPublished by Springer Nature ,1977