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The Politicization of Space and Its Economic-Policy Based Reinterpretation
Abstract
Towards the end of the 20th century, succeeding the decline of the debates focusing on the historical
time, spatial analyzes have started to center in social sciences. Towards the 21st century, the subject
of space has not only come to the fore as an important agenda item in social sciences, but also has
become the object of intense interest, including the discussion of the epistemological and theoretical
boundaries brought by the Enlightenment. This concentration has increased the emphasis on
regarding of space as a political object. This process, which is considered as a new declination, leads
to the spatialization of social processes and explains the interest of many social scientists in
simultaneous and juxtaposition forms. Having been defined by David Harvey as 'geographical
imagination', this shift has led to the political interpretation of space in social sciences and the
economic-political analyzes on it. In this study is considered the historical analysis and pathways of
the increasing emphasis on space social sciences, especially in the context of neo-Marxist
geographers. This study aims to discuss the early theoretical and conceptual approaches to this
transition.
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Sociology
Journal Section
Review
Authors
Serkan Çelik
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0000-0002-6012-8298
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 20, 2022
Submission Date
November 22, 2022
Acceptance Date
December 16, 2022
Published in Issue
Year 1970 Volume: 1 Number: 1