On the spatial phase of the modern capitalistic society : a consideration of Harvey's urban spatial theory

ゲンダイ シホン シュギ シャカイ ノ クウカンテキ イソウ オ メグッテ 1 Harvey D ノ トシ クウカンロン ノ コウサツ

セキ, ヨシヒロ

Seki, Yoshihiro

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

資本の第二次循環

フレキシブルな蓄積

時間-空間の圧縮

場所

space

the secondary circuit of capital

flexible accumulation

time-space compression

place

Today, as Giddens argues, the temporal point of view is dominant in social theories. But it could make it clear what the society is. Thus, we need the spatial perspective for analyzing the contemporary society. For this reason, I focus on the process of generating the social space which Harvey especially has brought into question. Harvey allege that the urban space is created through the surplus accumulation the processes of capital accumulation produce, 'the secondary circuit of capital'. In this process, investment makes the built environment for product and consumption. Moreover, it give rise to geographical unevenness rather than homogeneous space. This unevenness represents social inequalities, and sustain it. The spatial formation which is organized by the capital proceeds a new stage. It has been caused by the transformation of the mode of capital accumulation, that is, from Fordism to 'Flexible accumulation'. In this stage, we are exposed to 'the time -space compression' that we have never experienced. Post-modernism is characterized by this situation. In post-modern, we have to get a new place in order to take back homogeneous and fragmented identities. However, Harvey's theory on the urban space and post-modernism has contradiction. I think the place he pays attention to is one which the capital never intervenes.

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