Following its rise to prominence in the 1990s work on territory, the state and urban politics continues to be a vibrant and dynamic area of academic concern. Focusing heavily on the work of one key influential figure in the development of the field - Kevin R. Cox - this volume draws together a collection of prominent and well established scholars to reflect on the development and state of the field and to establish a research agenda for future work.
Contents: Preface; Introduction: Territory, the state and urban politics
in critical perspective, Andrew E.G. Jonas and Andrew Wood; Part I
Conceptualizing Space and Territory: from Quantitative Geography to
Historical-Geographical Materialism: Kevin Cox and electoral geography, Ron
Johnston and Charles Pattie; The local state and urban politics, Mark
Goodwin; Marxism, space and the urban question, Kevin R. Cox. Part II Urban
Politics and Local Economic Development in Territorial Context: Re-imagining
local politics: territorialisation, economic development and locality, Allan
Cochrane; Capital accumulation in space, capital-labour relations, and
political strategy, Jamie Gough; The urban politics of global cities,
Delphine Ancien; Policy transfer in space: entrepreneurial urbanism and the
making up of urban politics, Kevin Ward. Part III State, Territory and
Difference: Structure, agency and South Africa - some influences of (and on)
Kevin Cox, Jeff McCarthy; Political geographies of capitalist development in
South Africa, Alistair Fraser; Everyday life is situated: politics, space
and feminist theory, Kim England. Rejoinder: Territory, the state and urban
politics: some reflections, Kevin R. Cox; Index.
Andrew Wood, Andrew Jonas
