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Neil Smith’s theory of uneven development and geography of capitalism
Abstract
Neil Smith’s theory of uneven development, proposed at first in his early masterpiece,Uneven Development, has been developed and extended to his theory of gentrificationon the urban scale and his consideration on ‘American empire’ and neoliberalglobalization on the global scale. In Uneven Development, he suggested with highlyoriginative and in-depth insight concepts of production of nature and of space, tendencytowards differentiation and equalization, production of geographical scale andsee-saw movement and others in detail in order to formulate his theory of unevendevelopment. Although it is only recently that those concepts have attracted manygeographers’ attention, Smith tried already before three decades ago to theorizethem. And hence the text is now recognized as a classics in human geography. His theory of urban gentrification and concept of ‘rent-gap’ which grasp theoreticallyand empirically the sea-saw movement of capital between inner city and suburbscan be seen as an application and further elaboration of his theory of unevendevelopment on the urban scale. His two books, American Empire which describeshow the geography of Bowman contributed to American imperialism, and TheEndgame fo Globalization which explains how the process of neoliberalism has beendeveloped since the 1990s until recently, can be seen as his great endeavours toexplore uneven development on the global scale at the heart of which lies a geographicalproject of capital. Even though it cannot be said that there is no flawin Smith’s theory of uneven development and a series of his research, these wouldbe recognized as his great theoretical and practical project to formulate geographyof capitalism and its alternative which integrate geography with Marxism.
- keywords
- 닐 스미스, 불균등발전, 자연과 공간의 생산, 차별화와 균등화 경향, 규모의 생산, 시소운동, 젠트리피케이션, 지대격차, 아메리카 제국, 신자유주의적 세계화, Neil Smith, uneven development, production of nature and of space, tendency towards differentiation and equalization, production of scale, sea-saw movement, gentrification, rent-gap, American empire, neoliberal globalization
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