Buch | Kapitel
Human geography and Marxism
pp. 165-195
Abstrakt
Human geography is an academic discipline whose central focus is the analysis of the relationships between the environment and society, spatial structure and social process. Since the 1960s the discipline has come into contact with Marxism and particularly the Marxist inspired work on the relationships between environment, space and society. My concern in this chapter is not with picking out the environmental issues and spatial themes implicit or explicit in classical Marxist thought. This has been done elsewhere (see Parsons, 1977; Sandbach, 1980; Quaini, 1982). Moreover, there has not been an agreed set of classical Marxist arguments which have been used to guide subsequent work, it is much more a case of creative readings of classical Marxist texts by successive generations. My aim, therefore, is to show how this area of contemporary scholarship has been transformed by the use of Marxist theory and how this theory has in turn been re-evaluated.
Publication details
Published in:
Barański Zygmunt G., Short John R. (1985) Developing contemporary Marxism. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Seiten: 165-195
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17761-5_8
Referenz:
Short John R. (1985) „Human geography and Marxism“, In: Z. G. Barański & J. R. Short (eds.), Developing contemporary Marxism, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 165–195.