Urban Space and Political Consciousness: A Report on Theory

Kanishka Goonewardena
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Kanishka Goonewardena: Department of Geography, Programme in Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto,Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2004, vol. 36, issue 2, 155-176

Abstract: How is space political? This article first highlights Marx and Engels’s contributions to this question, then examines how a later generation of Marxists exemplified by Manuel Castells and his theory of “ collective consumption†returned to it with decidedly structuralist and reductive readings of Marxism. In conclusion, the article outlines how Fredric Jameson’s work on postmodernism and “cognitive mapping†provides a more holistic Marxist approach to urban experience by linking political economy to cultural theory.

Keywords: Marxism; urban studies; ideology; political economy; urban social movements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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