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• Title:The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities Geographical Inequalities Between Science and Propaganda / by Ferenc Gyuris.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gyuris, Ferenc.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:SpringerLink (Online service)
  Springer Nature - Springer Humanities, Social Sciences and Law eBooks 2014 English International
  
• Published/Created:Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
  
• In:Springer eBooks
  

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  • Call Number: GF1-900
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Social sciences.
  Political communication.
  Economic geography.
  Economic history.
  Regional economics.
  Spatial economics.
  Human geography.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  Social Sciences.
  Human Geography.
  Political Communication.
  Economic Geography.
  Regional/Spatial Science.
  Methodology/History of Economic Thought.
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
• Series:Contributions to Political Science
  
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• Summary:This work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of the issue. Instead, related theories are investigated in their political, economic, and social contexts, and spatial disparity research is presented as a political discourse. The book reveals how the propagandistic problematization or de-problematization of geographical inequalities serves the substantiation of political goals, while taking advantage of the legitimate authority of science and the image of scientific objectivity. It also explains how the discourse has functioned from 19th century social physics over the Cold War period up to Marxist geographies of the current neoliberal age, and in what way and to what extent political considerations prevent related concepts producing ‘objective’ knowledge about the complex phenomenon of spatial inequalities.
  
• ISBN:9783319015088
  9783319015071
  
• Contents:Introduction
  The Debate Over Social Disparities and the Disparity Discourse
  Social Disparities Meet Space and Concepts Surrounding It
  A Contextual Analysis of the Emergence of Spatial Disparity Research
  Spatial Disparity Analysis and Anti-Capitalism: The "Classical" Marxist Tradition
  Non-Marxist Reactions to the Marxist Problematizations of Spatial Unevenness
  Spatial Disparity Research After the Initial Decades of Cold War: End of the "Golden Age"
  And Yet Spatial Disparity is a Problem of Capitalism: Leftist Approaches in a Post-Fordist World
  Political Functioning of the Spatial Disparity Discourse: A summary
  Conclusion
  What to Do with the Discourse on Spatial Disparities? A normative Outlook
  References.