Crisis Spaces

"Although the argumentation is grounded in critical political economy, the author goes beyond the macro-focus. By adopting a consequent crossscalar approach, he discusses recent SE processes of dispossession, socio-spatial polarisation and marginalisation relationally in the context of global finance, European division of labour and power relations, national institutional practices, regional economic restructuring and households’ changing position. Moreover, the book enriches the uneven development debates by analysing the construction of the ‘South Question’ in European public discourses from a critical-and-South-European perspective. It highlights the ways the spatial narratives of the crisis were (and still are being) created, embedded in a historical and partial explanations of the meltdown, and employed to justify the highly unequal spread of the consequences of the crisis." - Erika Nagy, Hungarian Geographical Bulletin

" In sum, the book is a very important and long overdue contribution to the field of Economic Geography, which needs to recover its capacity to analyse how sub-national inequalities intersect with national and international socio-economic dynamics. This means, among other things, reinserting notions of political economy into its core theoretical frameworks. It also means having research agendas that can respond to economic conditions as they are experienced in real life, rather than chasing after agendas defined by policy makers or other interest groups."- Pedro Marques, Journal of Economic Geography