This 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. It also 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. The book 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."
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