Reviews for Uneven development

The average rating for Uneven development based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-08-30 00:00:00 Mike Brown "Today crisis does not spring from the interface between society and an external nature but from the contradictions at the heart of the social production process itself. Insofar as social crises are still attributed to natural scarcity today, this should be seen as a produced scarcity in nature." (84) the first three chapters of this book are amazing: wide-ranging and astute readings of marx; a great discussion of universal/external dualism in the bourgeois ideology of nature; absolute vs relative spatial models in science and geography; the historical unfolding of human society's relationship to nature. the two remaining chapters detailing a potential theory of uneven geographical development under capitalism are more difficult to grasp - as smith himself admits, there is not much that is concretely historical in these chapters, but again there's lots of good marx along with lenin, luxemburg and harvey. the afterwords from 1990 and 2007 make for interesting updates on how smith's thought has evolved. as would be imagined, he has some very smart things to say about more recent environmental politics.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-08-15 00:00:00 Martin Becker A short text that should provide a good basis for Marxist geography, Uneven Development is most of all a groundwork, elaborating concepts such as produced space and the contradiction between fixed and mobile capital (hence Detroit). Now, it's not without its flaws... being written in the '80s, there's the obligatory, unfortunate attempt to bring relativity theory into the mix... but those can easily be overlooked, and in many cases simply skipped.