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100	1		_aGyuris, Ferenc. _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities _h[electronic resource] : _bGeographical Inequalities Between Science and Propaganda / _cby Ferenc Gyuris.
264		1	_aCham : _bSpringer International Publishing : _bImprint: Springer, _c2014.
300			_aXV, 381 p. 41 illus. _bonline resource.
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490	1		_aContributions to Political Science
505	0		_aIntroduction -- The Debate Over Social Disparities and the Disparity Discourse -- Social Disparities Meet Space and Concepts Surrounding It -- A Contextual Analysis of the Emergence of Spatial Disparity Research -- Spatial Disparity Analysis and Anti-Capitalism: The "Classical" Marxist Tradition -- Non-Marxist Reactions to the Marxist Problematizations of Spatial Unevenness -- Spatial Disparity Research After the Initial Decades of Cold War: End of the "Golden Age" -- And Yet Spatial Disparity is a Problem of Capitalism: Leftist Approaches in a Post-Fordist World -- Political Functioning of the Spatial Disparity Discourse: A summary -- Conclusion -- What to Do with the Discourse on Spatial Disparities? A normative Outlook -- References.
520			_aThis work aims to provide unique insights into the multidisciplinary research on spatial disparities from an unconventional point of view. It breaks with the conventional narrative that tends to interpret this theoretical tradition as a series of factual contributions to a better understanding of the issue. Instead, related theories are investigated in their political, economic, and social contexts, and spatial disparity research is presented as a political discourse. The book reveals how the propagandistic problematization or de-problematization of geographical inequalities serves the substantiation of political goals, while taking advantage of the legitimate authority of science and the image of scientific objectivity. It also explains how the discourse has functioned from 19th century social physics over the Cold War period up to Marxist geographies of the current neoliberal age, and in what way and to what extent political considerations prevent related concepts producing ‘objective’ knowledge about the complex phenomenon of spatial inequalities.
650		0	_aSocial sciences.
650		0	_aGeography.
650		0	_aRegional economics.
650		0	_aEconomics _xMethodology.
650		0	_aHuman Geography.
650	1	4	_aSocial Sciences.
650	2	4	_aHuman Geography.
650	2	4	_aPolitical Communication.
650	2	4	_aEconomic Geography.
650	2	4	_aRegional/Spatial Science.
650	2	4	_aMethodology and the History of Economic Thought.
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776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783319015071
830		0	_aContributions to Political Science
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