Reproducing spatial inequality: opening the dialogue between perspectives

Linda M. Lobao () and Gregory Hooks ()

Chapter 3 in Rethinking Spatial Inequality, 2025, pp 60-84 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this second anchoring chapter, we continue to interrogate the concept of spatial inequality and how it is studied. We focus on an underlying issue in advancing research on spatial inequality, that is, no common overarching frameworks inform how spatial disparities in populations’ well-being are created and reproduced. Contributing to this issue is that scholars studying social stratification across populations have engaged in relatively little dialogue with critically oriented perspectives on uneven development. We bring these two traditions into dialogue, showing how they yield overlapping insights and jointly foster a better understanding of the forces creating spatial inequality. We offer building blocks and linkages in an enhanced spatial inequality approach that could help social scientists build better accounts of why disparities in populations’ well-being exist.

Keywords: Spatial inequality; Subnational inequality; Uneven development; Place and population stratification; Political economy perspectives; Disparities in population well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781803926124
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