Marxist Geography.

[Monty Cantsin]

A Marxist geography, what do you guy/gals think of the idea? Stubbled upon it today and it seem immensely interesting. I’ve known about different Marxist philosophers writing on the nature of space in modern societies and we often talk about how there not really being any ‘public’ space within today’s societies but it never clicked we were talking about geography.

anyways these are some prominate thinkers in the area, lets talk over their ideas...

David Harvey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harvey_%28geographer%29)
Henri Lefebvre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Lefebvre)

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

First link doesn't work. It should be http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Harvey_%28geographer%29

[JKP]

It does some very interesting indeed, especially his critique on post modernism.

I'll have to read some of his stuff.

[black magick hustla]

Isn't the situationists' psychogeography a form of "marxist" geography?

[Monty Cantsin]

Well even though Debord was heavily influenced by Marx I don’t think you could call his geographical theories as explicitly “Marxist”. From memory Debord was interested in the aesthetics of areas not the relationship between an area and capitalistic socio-economic influences. At least Debord in the society of the spectacle developed how social space was dominated by the spectacle and theories on ‘territorial domination’.

the Situationists were hugely influenced by Marx but they were also highly original. I’ve never really read much of their psychogeography bar the theory of the drift(it’s spell differently I know).