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CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS IN NEO‐MARXIST INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY. A CRITIQUE OF THEMES FROM SCOTT AND STORPER'S: PRODUCTION, WORK, TERRITORY
Author(s) -
PEET RICHARD
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8330.1989.tb00178.x
Subject(s) - structuralism (philosophy of science) , marxist philosophy , sociology , relation (database) , human geography , action (physics) , work (physics) , reading (process) , epistemology , social science , production (economics) , economic geography , political science , law , geography , economics , politics , philosophy , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , database , computer science , engineering , macroeconomics
The publication of Scott and Storper's Production, Work, Territory symbolizes the intellectual maturation of the new industrial geography. But problems of relating human action to structural necessity and local events to global processes continue to plague the discourse. This paper critically examines these related themes in the work of Scott and Storper, and Lipietz, pointing to the uneasy relation between structural inevitability and contingent spatial outcomes, and offers an alternative reading of structuralism as a contribution to the ongoing debate.