IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/reorpe/v36y2004i2p155-176.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Urban Space and Political Consciousness: A Report on Theory

Author

Listed:
  • Kanishka Goonewardena

    (Department of Geography, Programme in Planning, University of Toronto, Toronto,Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada)

Abstract

How is space political? This article first highlights Marx and Engels’s contributions to this question, then examines how a later generation of Marxists exemplified by Manuel Castells and his theory of “ collective consumption†returned to it with decidedly structuralist and reductive readings of Marxism. In conclusion, the article outlines how Fredric Jameson’s work on postmodernism and “cognitive mapping†provides a more holistic Marxist approach to urban experience by linking political economy to cultural theory.

Suggested Citation

  • Kanishka Goonewardena, 2004. "Urban Space and Political Consciousness: A Report on Theory," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 36(2), pages 155-176, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:36:y:2004:i:2:p:155-176
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://rrp.sagepub.com/content/36/2/155.abstract
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:36:y:2004:i:2:p:155-176. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.urpe.org/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.