The geopolitics of capitalism.

Abstract

The issue of space and geography is a sadly neglected stepchild in all social theory because its incorporation has a numbing effect upon the central propositions of any social theory. Attempts to theorise the historical geography of capitalism by elucidating a necessary tension between fixity and motion within its space-economy. In identifying these forces which sustain and subvert the 'structured coherence' of production and consumption within and between 'regional spaces' seeks to show not simply that the various crises of capitalism have their own geographies, but also that such spatial structures (or 'fixes') are intrinsic to the resolution of these crises and hence to the restructuring of the geopolitics of capitalism. -from Editors