Crisis Spaces: Structures, Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)

Hadjimichalis, Costis

ISBN 10: 1138184500 / ISBN 13: 9781138184503

Published by Routledge, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crisis Spaces: Structures, Struggles and Solidarity in Southern Europe (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138184500
• ISBN 13: 9781138184503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The financial malaise that has affected the Eurozone countries of southern Europe – Spain, Portugal, Italy and, in its most extreme case, Greece – has been analysed using mainly macroeconomic and financial explanations.

This book shifts the emphasis from macroeconomics to the relationship between uneven geographical development, financialization and politics. It deconstructs the myth that debt, both public and private, in Southern Europe is the sole outcome of the spendthrift ways of Greece, Spain, Italy and Portugal, offering a fresh perspective on the material, social and ideological parameters of the economic crisis and the spaces where it unfolded.

Featuring a range of case examples that complement and expand the main discussion, Crisis Spaces will appeal to students and scholars of human geography, economics, regional development, political science, cultural studies and social movements studies.

About the Author

Costis Hadjimichalis is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at Harokopio University of Athens, Greece. He previously held a post in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and has been a visiting professor at different universities in Europe, the USA and Australia. His current research and publications concern uneven geographical development, local and regional development, radical geography and landscape analysis. He has been the section editor of the Regional Development section in the International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography. Among his recent books are Space in Left Thought (co-author Dina Vaiou, 2012 in Greek), Debt Crisis and Land Dispossession (2014 in Greek, 2016 in German) and Geographical Issues Suited to Non-Geographers (2016 in Greek).