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Greig Charnock
Bio: Greig Charnock is an academic researcher from University of Manchester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Marxist philosophy & Capitalism. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 23 publications receiving 421 citations.
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14 Feb 2014
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the limits of capital, import substitution industrialisation, and European integration as follows: 1. The Limits to Capital 2. The Limit to Import Substitution Industrialisation 3. The limit to European Integration 4. The limits to Urbanisation 5.
Abstract: Introduction 1. The Limits to Capital 2. The Limits to Import Substitution Industrialisation 3. The Limits to European Integration 4. The Limits to Urbanisation 5. The Limits to the State Conclusion
71 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how the 22@Barcelona project is an exercise in the capture of monopoly rents, driven by the compulsion of public sector institutions, financiers and developers topursue rental profit-maximizing opportunities through the mobilization of land as an afinancial asset.
Abstract: The turn towards the knowledge-based economy and creative strategies to enhanceurban competitiveness within it has been well documented. Yet too little has been said todate about the transformation of land use for new productive activities, and thecontradictions inherent to this process. Our case study is Barcelona, an erstwhile‘model’ for urban regeneration which has sought to transform itself into a globalknowledge city since 2000. Through the lens of Marxian value theory, and Harvey’swriting on urban monopoly rents especially, we show how the 22@Barcelona project —conceived with received wisdom about the determinants of urban knowledge-basedcompetitiveness in mind — amounted to an exercise in the capture of monopoly rents,driven by the compulsion of public sector institutions, financiers and developers topursue rental profit-maximizing opportunities through the mobilization of land as afinancial asset.
69 citations
TL;DR: The 15-M movement as discussed by the authors is one of the principal organisations behind the "movement of the indignant" that has re-awakened popular political consciousness in Spain since 15 May 2011.
Abstract: We are the unemployed, the poorly remunerated, the subcontracted, the precarious, the young … we want change and a dignified future. We are fed up with antisocial reforms, those that leave us unemployed, those with which the bankers that have provoked the crisis raise our mortgages or take our homes, those laws that they impose upon us that limit our liberty for the benefit of the powerful. We blame the political economic and economic powers for our precarious situation and we demand a change of direction. iDemocracia Real YA! website, 2011Thus explains one of the principal organisations behind the ‘movement of the indignant’ that has re-awakened popular political consciousness in Spain since 15 May 2011.1 From its origins in a network of activists utilising new social media to coordinate a series of protest marches in cities across Spain, the ‘15-M’ movement has since staged camp-outs in several main city squares, and in the space of a month mobilised 40,000 protestors in Madrid and 80,000 in Barcelona t...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the functionalist and reductive representations of 22@Barcelona betray an ideological concern with the globally competitive abstract space, the reduction of differences, and the closing of the circuit of everyday life in Poblenou.
Abstract: The Barcelona model of urban transformation has for some time now been considered a paradigmatic case of successful regeneration. Urban change is ongoing in the city, albeit in a changed global context in which cities are increasingly being seen as the principal drivers of economic growth and competitiveness in the ‘new’ or ‘knowledge’ economy. The paper draws on the writing of Henri Lefebvre and on his critique of representations of space, in particular, in order to examine the current strategic transformation of the Poblenou district of Barcelona into 22@Barcelona: An innovation district. The paper endorses Lefebvre's work as a point of departure in critically analysing contemporary strategies to engineer urban competitiveness. It argues that the functionalist and reductive representations of 22@Barcelona betray an ideological concern with the globally competitive abstract space, the reduction of differences, and the closing of the circuit of everyday life in Poblenou.
47 citations
TL;DR: The authors examines the evolution of the Barcelona Model of urban transformation through the lenses of worlding and provincialising urbanism. But their focus is on the city itself, rather than the urban environment as a whole.
Abstract: This article examines the evolution of the ‘Barcelona Model’ of urban transformation through the lenses of worlding and provincialising urbanism. We trace this evolution from an especially dogmatic...
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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.
13,842 citations
Book Chapter•
01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: In this article, Jacobi describes the production of space poetry in the form of a poetry collection, called Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated and unedited.
Abstract: ‘The Production of Space’, in: Frans Jacobi, Imagine, Space Poetry, Copenhagen, 1996, unpaginated.
7,238 citations
01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In this article, the Schumpeterian Competition State and the Workfare State are discussed, with a focus on the role of social reproduction and the workfare state in the two types of states.
Abstract: List of Boxes. List of Tables and Figure. Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Capitalism and the Capitalist Type of State. 2. The Keynesian Welfare National State. 3. The Schumpeterian Competition State. 4. Social Reproduction and the Workfare State. 5. The Political Economy of State Rescaling. 6. From Mixed Economy to Metagovernance. 7. Towards Schumpeterian Workfare Postnational Regimes?. Notes. References. Index.
1,224 citations
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TL;DR: New State Spaces as discussed by the authors is a mature and sophisticated analysis of broad interdisciplinary interest, making this a highly significant contribution to the subject of political geographies of the modern state, which has been made in the past few years.
Abstract: Neil Brenner has in the past few years made a major impact on the ways in which we understand the changing political geographies of the modern state Simultaneously analyzing the restructuring of urban governance and the transformation of national states under globalizing capitalism, 'New State Spaces' is a mature and sophisticated analysis of broad interdisciplinary interest, making this a highly significant contribution to the subject
951 citations