NEIL SMITH was Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York and serves as director for the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. He is author or editor of nine books that explore the broad intersection between space, nature, social theory, and history and is co-organizer of the International Critical Geography Group.
Smith provides a brilliant formulation of how the production of a
particular kind of nature and space under historical capitalism is
essential to the unequal development of a landscape that integrates
poverty with wealth, industrial urbanization with agricultural
diminishment.
*Edward Said*
Smith attempts no less than the integration of nature and space in
the Marxian theory of capitalist development. The aim is to link
two radical traditions—geographical and political—by theoretically
illuminating the reality of uneven development. . . . Smith raises
the level of the debate on the fundamental question by taking a
definite stance. He improves the clarity even of the arguments made
in disagreement with him. His book should be widely read, used, and
discussed.
*Environment and Planning*
This book is a classic. It deals with fundamental issues that
simply do not go away, and demonstrates the enduring relevance of
Marxist political economy.
*coauthor of Spaces of Work*
Uneven Development is one of the most important books of
specifically geographical social theory to be written in the
English language in the last 30 years. As rapid environmental
change and attendant political divisions and struggles return to
the fore (propelled in no small part by global climate change),
this remains one of the few places to turn in social theory for a
rigorous and insightful explanation.
*author of Knock on Wood: Nature as Commodity in Douglas-Fir
Country*
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