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Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space Neil Smith, David Harvey
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space EUR 17,78. The ebbs and flows of capital in Baltimore informed his theory of uneven development. David Harvey, " Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of . This panel session aims to How can we apply the theses of the 'production of nature' and the 'production of space' (Neil Smith) fruitfully to debates and practices of environmental conservation? The production of space not only facilitates accumulation and money making in the ways just noted, it is also an opportunity in itself to make money, because space or the economic landscape is a commodity. Increasing fluctuations of agricultural prices. Uneven geographical development and inter-territorial competition became key features in capitalist development, opening the way towards the beginnings of a hegemonic shift of power particularly but not exclusively towards East Asia. Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space[705]. Understanding the uneven and combined development of agriculture and capitalist industry allows Marx to identify a series of specific contradictions. Central in these discussions is the idea of changing 'production processes', while the 'production' of environmental conservation itself is also seeing radical changes within the context of the uneven dynamics of the global political economy. Formally introduced in 1991, NEP expresses specific demands to create conditions where domestic and foreign capital can invest money to make a lot of money quickly, by using cheap natural resources of the country such as land and cheap skilled and . His most important theoretical contribution to the understanding of the geography of capitalism is outlined in Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space. Neil Smith's study on uneven development is exemplary on this regard, positing global capital as something ultimately reducible to what he calls a “space-economy,” in which “uneven development” is defined as nothing more than the “ geographical expression of the Theories of uneven development in the social sciences therefore tend to think about the problem of development in terms of geography and its effects on lived space and natural and built environments. Granted, natural space was — and it remains - the common point of departure: the origin, and the original model, of the social process — perhaps even the basis of all 'originality'. Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space. For once capital began to revolutionize the basis of production in pursuit of what Marx termed “relative surplus-value,” a series of accelerating social and technological innovations began to send down shockwaves throughout the rest of society. In "Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space," a classic text based on his dissertation research". Elisée Reclus, Évolution & Révolution, introduced by Olivier Besancenot, Paris: Le Passager clandestin, 2008. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.