Fourth International Lecture with Stevard Corbridge (30.06.2008)
Prof. Stuart Corbridge, London School of Economics and Political Science
Abstract space, differential space and ungovernable spaces: The politics of economic reform in eastern India
Abstract
One of the most important debates in development studies in recent years has concerned the relative weight of geography and institutions in determining patterns of differential development. Taking off from this debate, the focus of the lecture is on geography and institutions in the context of ongoing economic reform in India. It is clear that economic reform in India is bound up with, and depends upon, the production of abstract space in Lefebvre's sense; that is, with forms of spatial infrastructure that support the free and rapid movement of capital and labour. It is also clear that the diffusionist argument neglects tendencies and political competition effects in patronage democracies for the continuing production of what Lefebvre calls differential space, and what are in effect, for now at least, ungovernable spaces. As at the global scale, Bad Geographies are made in struggle and as a legacy of past institutional arrangements.
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Zum Referenten
Für die Forth International Lecture konnten wir Stuart Corbridge, Professor für Humangeographie an der London School of Economics and Political Science, gewinnen. Stuart Corbridge hat sich im Bereich der Geographischen Entwicklungsforschung und darüber hinaus als Politischer Geograph einen Namen gemacht. Seine aktuellen Forschungsinteressen zielen auf Fragen der politischen Steuerung, der Partizipations- und Empowermentforschung sowie der entwicklungstheoretischen Debatte. Zudem gilt Corbridge als exzellenter Kenner des indischen Subkontinents.
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