1st Edition

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

By Andrew Wood, Andrew Jonas Copyright 2012
    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    248 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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.

    Biography

    Andrew Wood, Andrew Jonas