Podcasts about uneven development

One of the central nodes of capitalist circulation in Latin America is a city you may have never heard of. It is also, by some accounts, the largest illicit economy in the hemisphere – raising the question of how central transgression is to the circulation and globalization of capitalism. The city in question is Ciudad del Este, a Paraguayan city at the border with Brazil and it is the subject of Jennifer Tucker's new book "Outlaw Capital, Everyday Illegalities and the Making of Uneven Development". Tucker explores the city's history, beginning with her connection to Paraguay as a Peace Corps volunteer, and delves into the complexities of street vending, the intertwining of legal and illegal economic activities, and the racialized and class-based disparities within these practices. She weaves personal stories of street vendors with the spatial and economic transformation of Ciudad del Este through malls and informal trade, and the state's role in shaping and sustaining these practices. The episode critically examines how contraband and informal economies are legitimized and contested, offering insights into broader themes of globalization, urban development, and social justice.   00:00 Introduction to Sur Urbano and Guest Jennifer Tucker 00:15 Exploring Street Vendor Life in Ciudad del Este 02:12 Unveiling 'Outlaw Capital': The Book on Ciudad del Este 02:34 Jennifer Tucker's Connection to Paraguay and Research Journey 03:53 The Dynamics of Ciudad del Este's Border Economy 08:18 Theoretical Insights: Outlaw Capital and Accumulation of Transgression 29:29 Contraband Urbanism and the Struggle for Space 44:25 Methodology and Ethnographic Challenges 48:15 Recent Changes and Ongoing Struggles in Ciudad del Este 51:50 Concluding Thoughts on Outlaw Economics and Urban Futures  

[EU S14 E18] Uneven Development a Key Problem of Capitalism This week in honor of Karl Marx's birthday over this past weekend, Professor Richard Wolff offers a discussion of Marx's important theory of uneven development as central to capitalism. We show its widespread existence, using examples of it from past and present. We conclude by showing how uneven development helps cause key social problems in capitalism. The d@w Team Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff is a DemocracyatWork.info Inc. production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads and rely on viewer support to continue doing so. You can support our work by joining our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/democracyatwork Or you can go to our website: https://www.democracyatwork.info/donate   Every donation counts and helps us provide a larger audience with the information they need to better understand the events around the world they can't get anywhere else. We want to thank our devoted community of supporters who help make this show and others we produce possible each week. We kindly ask you to also support the work we do by encouraging others to subscribe to our YouTube channel and website: www.democracyatwork.info

The Uneven Development of Societies Throughout History, Why Did the Nice Churchgoing Lady Cross the Road, Fauci and the AIDS Crisis, A Varsity Track Story I Couldn't Grasp, The Jamaicans Next Door & Synchronization of Orgasms

Following a gutsy, thrilling 2023 Super Bowl win by the Kansas City Chiefs, sportswriters Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd join co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss their forthcoming book Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback. Dent and Dodd map out the relationship between race and football in Kansas City from the Chiefs' move to the city in the early 1960s to the activism and engagement of players like Mahomes in the Black Lives Matter era. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected Readings: Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd Kingdom Quarterback: Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs, and How a Once Swingin' Cow Town Chased the Ultimate Comeback Opinion: “The Chiefs proudly broke racial barriers. Kansas City erected them.” by Mark Dent “How Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes authored his greatest comeback in Super Bowl LVII,” by Rustin Dodd Others: America's Game: The Epic Story Of How Pro Football Captured A Nation  by Michael MacCambridge Kansas City (as 'K.C. Loving') written by Leiber and Stoller, recorded by Little Willie Littlefield (1953) The history behind J.C. Nichols' development, restrictive covenants in Kansas City The King of Kings County by Whitney Terrell Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development by Kevin Fox Gotham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Uma linha de trem elevada abandonada, uma ilha cheia de prédios de arquitetos famosos e um parque com notável design: receita para sucesso ou para gentrificação? Neste episódio, a história, o projeto e as consequências do Parque High Line de Nova York. . . Imagem: Iwan Baan | https://www.thehighline.org/photos-videos/ . . Referências: LANG, Steven; ROTHENBERG, Julia. Neoliberal urbanism, public space, and the greening of the growth machine: New York City's High Line park. Environment and Planning, p.1-19, 2016. LOUGHRAN, Kevin. Parks for Profit: The High Line, Growth Machines, and the Uneven Development of Urban Public Spaces. City and Community, v. 13, n. 1, 2014. SANCHEZ, Renata Latuf de Oliveira. Superfícies de Contato Urbanas: Arquitetura, Espetáculo, Arte, Cidade. Revista ARA, n. 4, p.181-205, 2018. VIEGAS, Marina Vale. A reurbanização das áreas contíguas ao complexo urbanístico High Line (NY). 2019. Dissertação (Mestrado em Arquitetura e Urbanismo) – Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 2019. https://www.archdaily.com.br/br/889797/high-line-de-nova-iorque-recebe-premio-veronica-rudge-de-desenho-urbano https://placesjournal.org/article/above-grade-on-the-high-line/?gclid=CjwKCAjwvNaYBhA3EiwACgndgngy5o2AYLQrripwrLQQsYtEmqMPpFsPoz7Tm4NJ9YaTMy3RFbpXFBoClgQQAvD_BwE&cn-reloaded=1 https://dsrny.com/project/the-high-line https://www.thehighline.org/ https://oudolf.com/garden/highline

Join Haymarket for a discussion celebrating the release of Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy's Marx in Paris, 1871. This deeply informed, eminently enjoyable work of historical fiction places Karl Marx in the thick of the unprecedented events of the Paris Commune. In disguise, employing imperfect but serviceable French, Karl and his eldest daughter, Jenny, encounter and debate many important figures of the movement, including Léo Frankel, Eugène Varlin, Charles Longuet, Elisabeth Dmitrieff, and Louise Michel, eventually returning to England with a profoundly changed sense of political possibility. “This book adds to the tradition evolving since Marx and Lenin. Remarkably accessible, it refreshes, provokes, and thereby develops that movement still further.” — Richard Wolff “This fictional account is a remarkable piece of historical criticism and revolutionary imagination.” —Enzo Traverso Get Marx in Paris, 1871: Jenny's “Blue Notebook” from Haymarket here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1770-marx-in-paris-1871 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Michael Löwy is emeritus research director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). His books, including On Changing the World and the Politics of Combined and Uneven Development, have been translated into thirty languages. Natalia Tylim is active in the NYC-DSA labor branch. She's a restaurant worker, a founding member of DSA's Restaurant Organizing Project, and a member of the Tempest Collective. Valerio Arcary is a professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology in Brazil. Todd Chretien (moderator) is an organizer, author, translator, and high school Spanish teacher. He has contributed to several books, including Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics, and is editor of Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/HdPcBkE7OlM Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Varsha Venkatasubramanian discusses the many trajectories of modernization as a theoretical concept. She focuses mainly on the history of development in the US and in India, through the cold war years and continuing to the present day. Varsha (@varsha_venkat_ on Twitter) is a graduate student focusing on the history of dams in the US and […]

Hello Interactors,This is the last post of the Spring 2021 cartographic portion of Interplace. My recent trip to Kansas City got me thinking about the role land use mapping and planning played in the formation of select surrounding suburbs.It’s also a bit of a teaser for the Summer season as Interplace moves toward the environment, physical geography, and its role in urban planning and design.As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go… LIFE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SACKOne glance out the window as you fly into the Kansas City airport and the gridding of American land becomes apparent. A array of crops, fields, and irrigation circles all stitched in and bordered by hard edged polygons but also gently meandering rivers and streams. It’s all part of the grand plan to divide the organically occurring hills and valleys of America into artificial two dimensional polygons. A tapestry of maps for settling colonists that doubles as a ledger for settling government’s finances.The patterns are apparent at the street level too. The main arterials are uniformly distributed and connected at intersections; east-west and north-south thoroughfares that reach far beyond the core of the city. But just off these axes of expansion are sweeping tree lined curvilinear roads featuring large deciduous trees with canopies of leaves floating over a pool of manicured Kentucky bluegrass. And nestled within are the beloved single family homes. A community planned from above on a map that sells an illusion of a naturally occurring pastoral ideal. A residential product planned, designed, and manufactured for settling White suburban colonists. Like me.I grew up on a cul-de-sac in a planned community in Norwalk, Iowa. It doesn’t get anymore suburban than a cul-de-sac. I admit, it was nice. The center of the street featured a domed grassy circle that the neighborhood kids would all use to play kick-the-can. We’d place the can atop the center of the mound and then run and hide behind the surrounding houses and bushes. Cul-de-sacs are great for families because they’re dead ends. The literal French translation is ‘bottom of the sack’. The only cars, which was rare, were driven by the parents of the kids playing in the street. Parents of this generation knew the benefits of playing in the road because it was a lawful thing to do when they were kids. But with the rise of the automobile came laws that made it illegal to play in the street. Sadly, it still is. Our little cul-de-sac was part of Norwalk’s first annexation; just four years after I was born. After we had all grown, my parents moved to Overland Park, Kansas to retire. Overland Park was founded around the same time Norwalk was incorporated in 1905. And like Norwalk, its founding was driven by the railroad, but its expansion was driven by the automobile. The growth of roads in suburban America correlates with the annexation of land throughout the 50s and 60s. Favorable home loans from the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) helped too. As did redlining – the discriminatory delineation of red lines on ‘residential security maps’ where home loans were denied due to the area resident’s racial and ethnic origins. Overland Park annexed developments for decades making it the second most populous city in Kansas (behind Wichita). This area of Johnson Country was developed primarily by the Kroh Brothers Development Company after World War II. They, like the more famous area developer J. C. Nichols, were deemed “community builders” and benefited from building subsidies flowing from the FHA. But the communities they were building were strictly White. Using harsh racist covenants and deeds, they controlled who could buy homes in these suburbs. Here’s how the deed read for Leawood Estates, a community that shares the eastern border of Overland Park. “None of said lots or portions of lots shall ever be sold, conveyed, transferred, devised, leased or rented to or used, owned or occupied by any person of Negro blood or by any person who is more than one-fourth of the Semitic race, blood, origin, or extraction, including without limitation in said designation, Armenians, Jews, Hebrews, Turks, Persians, Syrians, and Arabians, excluding, however, from the application of this paragraph partial occupancy by bona fide domestic servants employed thereon.”EBENEZER’S POLAR PLUNGE These satellite cities just beyond the reach of the city are associated with the post war rise of wealth and the automobile. But this method of mapping and planning had been around much longer. Ebenezer Howard introduced the concept of a ‘Garden City’ in 1895 in England in response to the overcrowding, congestion, and pollution that came with the industrial age. It’s a method of city planning that was cross-referenced by the City Beautiful Movement found in Chicago’s Burnham Plan. Howard himself had lived in Chicago working as a reporter before returning to England. He was a writer, not an urban planner or architect. His Garden City vision was inspired by a science fiction utopian novel called, Looking Backward: 2000–1887 by American Edward Bellamy. It’s a story that starts in the year 2000 in an America that had morphed into a socialist utopia. It was in response to the rising wealth, power, and control of overreaching monopolists and oligarchs that had been taking hold in America in the late 1800s. It may be a good time for us all to be looking backward to Bellamy. Just this week Lina Khan was confirmed as the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission — a bi-partisan appointment to an agency that enforces antitrust law by a woman with a reputation for going after oligopolies. Read more about the significance of the appointment of this progressive woman in Matt Stoller’s piece here.Howard’s vision for Garden Cities was amplified by his diagrammatic conceptual maps that accompanied his utopian ideas in his 1898 book Garden Cities of To-morrow. In keeping with the European cartographic tradition of fixed, top-down, graphical and mathematical overlays atop a morphing organic landscape, he advocated not for a gridded Cartesian plan, but a circular arrangement along polar axes. His idea was to plan self-contained smaller circles of cities around a larger central city all connected by rail creating what he called a “Group of Slumless, Smokeless Cities.”Like his contemporaries, and many today, his view was that the earth is here to be exploited and controlled. In keeping with industrialist and neo-liberal capitalist traditions, he believed the earth to be an endless well of resources and the duty of the White man was to coerce or seize control of the ‘savages’ that had tended to it in reciprocity for millennia. Here’s Howard in his book Garden Cities of To-morrow,“The planet on which we live has lasted for millions of years, and the race is just emerging from its savagery. Those of us who believe that there is a grand purpose behind nature cannot believe that the career of this planet is likely to be speedily cut short now that better hopes are rising in the hearts of men, and that, having learned a few of its less obscure secrets, they are finding their way, through much toil and pain, to a more noble use of its infinite treasures. The earth for all practical purposes may be regarded as abiding for ever.”The countryside, with “land laying idle”, was one of the attractions Howard envisioned for his satellite cities. He created a diagram illustrating what he believed were three magnets influencing people’s decisions on where to live and work. The three magnets were Town, Country, and Town-Country. Each magnet included words that described the benefits and detractors of each. Town’s were rich in attractions, but was also full of ‘Slums’ and “Gin Palaces”.  The Country “Lacked Amusement” and “Long hours and low wages” but was home to “Wood, meadow, and forest” that was in “Need of reform”. The Town-Country provided the best of both worlds: “Beauty of Nature, Social opportunity. Fields and Parks of Easy Access. Low rents, High wages. Low prices, no sweating. Field of enterprise, Flow of capital. Pure air and water, Good drainage. Bright homes and gardens, No smoke, No slums. Freedom. Co-operation.”Sounds pretty good. Utopian, almost. No such utopia has ever been accomplished, but Howard’s ideas continue to inspire designers today. In 2014, British urban design firm, URBED, won the Wolfson Economics Prize for their envisioning of a modern-day garden city, Uxcester. FEDERAL FINANCING FIXHoward was intent on making the Town-country attractive to lure people who abandoned the countryside for jobs in the city.“Town and country must be married, and out of this joyous union will spring a new hope, a new life, a new civilisation. It is the purpose of this work to show how a first step can be taken in this direction by the construction of a Town-country magnet; and I hope to convince the reader that this is practicable, here and now, and that on principles which are the very soundest, whether viewed from the ethical or the economic standpoint.”The Kroh brothers were convinced and saw country “land laying idle” just outside the an increasingly over-crowded Kansas City. They also had visions of a “new civilization” for White residents. But ethical? I don’t think so. Economic opportunity? Absolutely. Long before they set out to plan and build their White suburbs, Kansas City and the U.S. Federal government were already fashioning their own magnets.As Tulane University’s Director of Urban Studies, Kevin Fox Gotham, writes in his paper, Missed Opportunities, Enduring Legacies: School Segregation and Desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri,“From the 1920s through the 1950s, the Kansas City Real Estate Board (formed in 1900) subscribed to a national code of real estate ethics that endorsed the view that all-black and racially mixed neighborhoods were inferior to all-white homogenous neighborhoods.”“During this time, the FHA's Underwriting Manuals referred to the "infiltration of inharmonious racial or nationality groups" as "adverse" to neighborhood stability and advised appraisers to lower the rating of properties in racially mixed or all-black neighborhoods. Although the FHA removed explicitly racist language from its manuals in the 1950s, later manuals continued to refer to the necessity of maintaining "homogenous" neighborhoods and warned of the risk of "dissimilar" groups as "unstable" and "inharmonious".”Between 1934 and 1962 the FHA insured more than seventy-seven thousand homes in the Kansas City area, but just one percent of them went to Black families. In another paper entitled, Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development, Gotham quotes a mortgage company president who was Chairman of the board from 1934 to 1965,“The FHA and VA wouldn’t insure any guarantee loans [in the Kansas City area] unless there was a [racial] restriction involved, and most lenders on residential property were relying heavily upon the FHA and VA for their protection. So that as long as that remained their position, the lender really had no choice but to observe the restriction.”With local and Federal Government on their side, the Kroh brothers could confidently conjure and craft curvaceous cartographic corridors and cul-de-sacs atop a topographic map of the Kansas countryside. A green garden suburb made up of White people. Their plan also coincided with federal laws dictating the geometry of street design. Streets wide enough to accommodate free parking and a fast flow of traffic, connected curb-cut driveways leading to a garage connected to a cookie-cutter home who’s design was pre-approved by the FHA to streamline bulk lending processes. The Kroh brothers may have been called “community builders”, but it wasn’t so much a community that was being built, but a pre-packaged residential product that was being sold to White people seeking a “new civilization.”The Kansas City area remains highly segregated to this day. Mostly down the north-south racist dividing line of Troost Avenue. But it wasn’t always that way. In 1950 seventy five percent of the population east of Troost was White. By 1970 that area dwindled to 25 percent. Over ninety-two thousand White people fled to the west side of Troost while nearly sixty-two thousand Black residents moved to the east side. There were, and are, many contributing factors to these facts like skewed school segregation schemes, self-segregation, job availability, and, of course, generations of lucrative loans guarantees to White people. It’s not clear where race and ethnic origin fit in Ebenezer Howard’s ideas for a garden city utopia. But he did envision idealized democratic communities that were planned and structured in a way as to eliminate social divisions. There is no question people of all races and ethnic origins would like opportunities to live in a idyllic garden suburb. Maybe even on a cul-de-sac featuring a grassy domed circle where children of mixed heritage could race to kick the can. Given America’s founding fathers believed the United States to be an ongoing democratic experiment for humanity at large — a country that has long beckoned the tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free — perhaps we should all take a piece of Ebenezer Howard’s idealism to heart as we seek equitable access to housing in towns of all sizes and locations:“Besides, as those persons who migrate to the town are among its most energetic and resourceful members, it is but just and right that their more helpless brethren should be able to enjoy the benefits of an experiment which is designed for humanity at large.” Subscribe at interplace.io

Join Michael Löwy, Marianela D'Aprile, and Aline Klein for a multi-media discussion of Löwy's new book, Revolutions. Michael Löwy's Revolutions presents a startling visual documentation of a wide range of seminal revolutionary events, from the Paris Commune of 1872 through to the Zapatista uprising of the mid-1990s. The immediacy and dynamism of the book's images tells the story of these upheavals in a way that texts rarely can, offering a rare glimpse of these complex and messy events and the real human beings who drove them. This celebration of the book's release will showcase dozens of these stirring photos as the participants discuss what the images tell us about their moments, and how today's socialist movement can draw lessons from the revolutionary struggles of the past. Get a copy of Revolutions here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1476-revolutions ---------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Marianela D'Aprile is a writer in Chicago. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America's National Political Committee. Aline Klein is on the editorial board of Jacobin Brasil and is an activist in the Party for Socialism and Freedom (PSOL). Michael Löwy is emeritus research director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). He is the author of numerous books, including Revolutions; On Changing the World; the Politics of Combined and Uneven Development; and the War of the Gods: Religion and Politics in Latin America; Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's “On the Concept of History.” Todd Chretien (moderator) is an organizer, author, translator, and high school Spanish teacher. He has contributed to several books, including Socialist Strategy and Electoral Politics, and is editor of Eyewitnesses to the Russian Revolution. ---------------------------------------------------- Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/-gdjTK7V2f0 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

This episode covers business responsibility in India. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads  Chapter 15 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 15 is broken into the following sections:- Colours in the Dust- A Little World- Greener is Not Always Better- Delhi’s Uneven Development

Marx is often accused of what has been called a Promethean vision of human social organisation, namely that human beings, using their superior brains, knowledge and technical prowess, can and should impose their will on the rest of the planet or what is called ‘nature' – for better or worse. On the 200th anniversary of his birth, Engels too must be saved from the same charge.Actually, Engels was well ahead of Marx (yet again) in connecting the destruction and damage to the environment that industrialisation was causing. Engels' major work (written with Marx's help), The Dialectics of Nature, written in the years up to 1883, just after Marx's death, is often subject to attack as extending Marx's materialist conception of history as applied to humans, into nature in a non-Marxist way. And yet, in his book, Engels could not be clearer on the dialectical relation between humans and nature. it's time to revise the revisionists. Engels and Ecology The Urban Political Ecology of Friedrich Engels - Camilla Royle This paper takes the 200th anniversary of Engels's birth in November 1820 to rethink his contribution to what we might today call urban political ecology. Marxist thinkers within critical environmental geography, have long argued for a focus on the natural processes that constitute the urban environment, demonstrating how the urban is shaped by both social and ecological processes. Their approach is rooted in a dialectical rather than a mechanistic materialism. While some have cited Engels as an early advocate of these views, others – such as Neil Smith in Uneven Development – have been more critical of his views on nature, seeing them as representing a dualist approach alien to Marx's understanding. This paper will address these debates by highlighting Engels's work on housing conditions, air and water pollution as well as his writings on infectious disease pandemics of the time such as typhus and cholera. It will show how Engels's approach to public health and his accusations of “social murder” perpetuated by the ruling class predates the analysis of structural violence developed by critical theorists of global health over a century later. It will suggest that Engels's understanding of how capitalist social relations produced an urban environment detrimental to workers aligns with Marx's views. PLEASE NOTE: All events for HM Online are free to register, however we would ask comrades who are able to please consider supporting the Historical Materialism project. Please consider subscribing to the Historical Materialism journal, published by BRILL, who are currently offering a 25% discount on individual subscriptions, valid until the end of the year. To use the offer, quote the discount code 70997 when subscribing at: www.brill.com/hima Also, please consider subscribing to the Historical Materialism book series through Haymarket Books. For $25 per month, this subscription gets you every new title from the Historical Materialism series when it is released (as long as your subscription remains active) plus a 50% discount on *all* Haymarket books titles via our website. Non-US subscribers will be charged an extra $20/month for international shipping. https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/894-haymarket-book-club-historical-materialism-series Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/EbGrV9UzYo4 Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

En el sucesivo volumen ahondaré y rescatare ideas que son tal cual planteadas por diversos literatos y de alguna modo hago reflexionar acerca de  las temáticas en ellos planteada puntualizando de forma precisa conceptos e ideas y de igual modo solidificare propiamente estos conceptos transportándose a un mundo actual: en cuanto a diversos tópicos y ello incluye las Consideraciones generales sobre Geografía: su evolución, objeto, Geopolítica y Geoeconomía, La Conflictividad mundial por recursos, Las Problemáticas Medioambientales globales, El Cambio climático, Análisis de sistemas-mundo, Espacio, escalas, globalización e integración Ortega Valcárcel. “El objeto de la geografía: las representaciones del espacio”, en Los horizontes de la Geografía, p. 333-365. Roseira, Antonio. “Geografia e Relações Internacionais, pp. 64-86 John Agnew, “Entre la geografía y las relaciones internacionales”, pp. 85-98. Smith, Neil. “The ideology of nature”, en Uneven Development, pp. 1- 31. Smith, Neil, “The production of nature”, en Uneven Development, pp. 32-65 Klare, Michael. Wealth, “Resources and Power: The Changing Parameters of Global Security”, en Resource Wars, The new lannscape of global conflict, p. 1-32. Bartra, Armando. “La gran crisis”, 191-303. Quintana Solórzano, Fausto. “Dinámicas, escalas y dimensiones del cambio climático”, pp. 181-200. Conde, Cecilia. Cambio climático. De lo inequívoco a lo incierto, pp. 17-31. Wallerstein, Immanuel. Análisis de sistemas-mundo, p. 19-31 Harvey, David. Espacios del capital, pp. 332-365. Vesentini, William J. Capitalismo, Estado e espaço geográfico, pp. 13-29. Sassen, Saskia. “The global inside the national”, p. 1-10. Massey, Doreen. “Geometrías internacionales del poder”, pp. 115-122. Nogue, Joan & Vicente Ruffi. “Un siglo de tradición disciplinar”, pp. 29-64. Saskia Sassen, “Territorio, Autoridad y Derecho, de los ensamblajes medievales a los ensamblajes globales”,pp. 19-40. Raffestin Claude, El territorio y el poder, pp. 102-129.

In the aftermath of the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015-16, the migration regime consolidating in Europe entails the management of newcoming populations through their accommodation in camps. This talk will account for neglected aspects of this process in the case of Greece, focusing on the everyday economic practices, interactions and networks emerging in, around and […]

In this episode of Crash Course Sara Murawski en Rodrigo Fernandez discuss Dependency Theory with Ingrid Kvangraven. How does dependency theory help us to formulate different answers to the problems developing countries face today. We try to understand what it is and why it has been lost in debates on the global south, after being dominant in the 70s and 80s. Since the IMF and the world bank imposed their neo-liberal adjustment programs, development has become synonymous with attracting foreign direct investments (FDI) from multinational corporations. In this dominant worldview, developing countries need to focus on implementing policies (‘reforms') that attract FDI at all cost. Success can be achieved by following the prescribed market-oriented changes that convert economic assets and activities in a potential tradable financial asset. Dependency theory on the other hand departs from the opposite perspective. In this approach ‘underdevelopment' is the result of a specific type of integration in a capitalist global economy that is uneven. “Core countries benefit from the global system at the expense of periphery countries, which face structural barriers that make it difficult, if not impossible, for them to develop in the same way that the core countries did.” - About Crash Course Economics Crash Course is a platform designed to open up debate on how we can move out of the current crisis and make the necessary steps towards achieving social, economic, ecological and regenerative justice. Crash Course is inviting global experts to break down complex issues in lay terms and make them accessible to all so that we can understand how to shape our economic system for a just recovery and future. Website: https://crashcourseeconomics.org/ Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/g54ZMD Podcast: http://podcast.crashcourseeconomics.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrashEconomics Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crash-Course-113416687059951

Privet Comrades! This episode is part 1 of our 2 part series on the Bolshevik (for a time at least) boy Leon Trotsky. We're delighted to be joined by the Soviet Savant Tinman who talks to us about his life, his role in the Russian Revolution, his theories on Permanent Revolution and Uneven Development. Sit down with some borscht and enjoy!

    Listen, support, and interact: https://linktr.ee/theentrylevelleft     01:25 What is uneven development? https://bit.ly/2aDmqkh   03:00: "Uneven development” via Rostow's Stages https://bit.ly/2gC2hjP   07:36: How is uneven development related to imperialism and colonialism?   11:40: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney https://bit.ly/2JhgzWB   16:32: What are the scopes and causes of uneven development?   18:27: Redlining, denial of mortgage loans, and disinvestment in Chicago https://bit.ly/2DSqsXk   20:25: What is the legacy of uneven development today?   20:35: Case studies of uneven development in Zambia and Tanzania https://bit.ly/2H2PxR4   22:15: Structural Adjustments of the IMF or World Bank cause poverty https://bit.ly/1qfKSOl   26:10: Thomas Sankara on foreign aid https://bit.ly/2VSv9u6   29:30: Therapy is less effective for people in poverty https://bit.ly/2JypKmD   30:00: Socioeconomic status correlating with social outcomes https://bit.ly/2J3jVgw   31:45: How does capitalism enable market attitudes that trend toward uneven development?   36:00: Capitalist market logic applied to West Virginia https://bit.ly/2H51khO   36:02: Richard Ojeda, milquetoast orange-man-bad liberal https://bit.ly/2VNWcXx   43:10: How are social relations relevant to examples of uneven development?   49:05: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein https://bit.ly/2WEcI9y   51:20: New Urbanism: https://bit.ly/2gGaaq0   56:50: Boyle Heights gentrification protests https://bit.ly/2H5Pt21   59:30: Betsy DeVos privatizing education https://bit.ly/2J34x3D   1:00:30: How does uneven development foster nationalistic, reactionary tendencies?   1:03:00: Local examples: White flight, displacement, gentrification https://bit.ly/2VRt3uD     1:06:00: Eagle's Landing in Atlanta, GA https://bit.ly/2V7wnxa   1:09:50: Low investment in neighborhoods equals low public school funding     Music produced by @southpointe__ on Instagram.

Catherine looks at the physical and historical factors causing uneven development for your GCSE Geography exam. In this episode, she will look at different factors, such as colonisation and poor climate. Ideal for preparing your for GCSE Geography exam. For more info visit www.senecalearning.com/blog/gcse-geography-revision

Catherine looks at the economic causes of uneven development, and the consequences of uneven development for your GCSE Geography exam. In this episode, she will look at different economic causes of uneven development, such as poor trade links, and the consequences of uneven development for a country. Ideal for preparing your for GCSE Geography exam. For more info visit www.senecalearning.com/blog/gcse-geography-revision

Lex Musta recalls his introduction to 'The Other Tradition' by Dr. Richard Thomas in 2012, Detroit: Race and Uneven Development (3:50), Focus Hope (7:30), Detroit Interracial Cooperation after 1943 and 1967 Pogroms (8:45), Racial Unity: An Imperative for Social Progress published by the Association for Baha'i Studies in 1993 (11:15), Understanding Interracial Unity: A Study of U.S. Race Relations published in the SAGE series on Race and Ethnic Relations in 1995 (11:30), Black and Jewish Faculty on College Campuses and Minister Farrakhan (15:00), Grimke Sisters (17:00), Bacon's Rebellion (20:00), Revolutionary War (23:15), John Brown meets Frederick Douglass (27:00), USCT (31:15), Knights of Labor (31:30), Reconstruction (32:00), NAACP (32:45), Northern Migration (34:30), Herbert Aptheker (37:00), Congress of Industrial Organizations (37:30), Highlander Folk School (38:15), Southern Conference for Human Welfare (38:30), Southern Conference Educational Fund (38:45), Howard Thurman (40:30), Malcolm X and Martin Luther King (40:45), Baha'i Civil Rights Work in 1964 (44:15).

Even as the China’s economic reforms in the 1980s and 90s laid the foundation for it to become an economic powerhouse, increasingly wide gaps opened up between rich and poor, leaving behind those ill equipped to compete in a market economy. The massive changes taking place were also reflected in the uneven distribution of social welfare benefits, which tended to accrue to those best positioned to succeed under the new system. In 1993, Shanghai implemented a minimum livelihood guarantee or dibao, an anti-poverty safety net. Since then, the program has expanded throughout China and is centrally regulated. Today, it serves as the country’s primary social insurance program. Even though it is the largest welfare program in the world, there has been little English-language research evaluating the effectiveness of the dibao system. In her new book, Welfare, Work, and Poverty: Social Assistance in China, Columbia University professor and expert on low-income families in China Qin Gao attempts to rectify this deficiency by answering key questions about the program’s efficacy.   Dr. Gao examines how successful the dibao system has been at alleviating poverty, as well as patterns of behavior and the sense of well-being among dibao recipients. Her work not only deepens our understanding of entitlements in China, but also adds the Chinese case as a comparative example to the growing body of literature looking at welfare systems around the world. On May 10, 2017, Dr. Gao joined the National Committee in New York City for a discussion of her book, the development and expansion of the dibao system, as well as its policy implications for China and other countries. The conversation was moderated by Professor Mark Frazier, director of the India China Institute at The New School. Qin Gao is professor of social policy and social work at the Columbia University School of Social Work and director of the newly established China Center for Social Policy at the school. She is a faculty affiliate of the Columbia Population Research Center and Weatherhead East Asian Institute. She is also an academic board member of the China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University, and is a Public Intellectuals Program fellow of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Dr. Gao’s research examines poverty, income inequality, and social welfare policies in China and their cross-national comparisons. Dr. Gao also studies gender inequality and social protection for rural-to-urban migrants in China. She has published widely in leading interdisciplinary journals such as The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Social Policy, Review of Income and Wealth, Social Service Review, and World Development. Mark W. Frazier is professor of politics at the New School for Social Research, and academic director of the India China Institute at The New School. His recent research compares China and India in terms of how each has coped with development challenges related to inequality and urbanization, historically and in the present. He is the author of Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China (Cornell University Press 2010) and The Making of the Chinese Industrial Workplace (Cambridge University Press 2002). He has authored op-ed pieces and essays for The New York Times, Daedalus, The Diplomat, and World Politics Review. Dr. Frazier is also a fellow of the National Committee's Public Intellectuals Program.

The second roundtable, moderated by Mark Stern, included four research presentations: An Open and Shut Case: Comparing Outcomes of Community Engagement in D.C.'s School Closures – Esa Syeed, New York University Shifting Landscapes of Power and Privilege: Public School Closures and Uneven Development in Philadelphia – Ariel H. Bierbaum, University of California-Berkeley School’s Out: The Closing of Baltimore’s Schools – Jessica Shiller, Towson University Neighborhoods, Philadelphia School Closures, and the Contested Politics of Place – Ryan M. Good, Rutgers University