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- Title
Agency, capabilities and geographical politics: A book review symposium.
- Authors
Schafran, Alex; Smith, Matthew Noah; Hall, Stephen
- Abstract
Positioning, in the final chapter, the universal basic income as one of two examples of the "spatial contract in practice" also for me undermined some key propositions made earlier, in particular in relation to the essential materiality of reliance systems as tangible things in the built environment, and the grounding of the spatial contract in place. In other words, Schafran, Smith and Hall's renaturalization of politics may inadvertently inject a stabilizing and universalizing vision of the human into their otherwise noteworthy efforts to focus critical geographic attention on the messy empirical complexities of the spatial contract. To the extent that the spatial contract determines what capacities reliance systems can and cannot create, a systems-centred politics involves the creation of certain agential capacities rather than others, and the distribution of these capacities throughout the population (pp. 114-134). Schafran, Alex Smith, Matthew Noah and Hall, Stephen The Spatial Contract: A New Politics of Provision for an Urbanized Planet.
- Subjects
AGENT (Philosophy); SUBURBS; SYSTEM failures; PUBLIC housing; BUILT environment
- Publication
Progress in Human Geography, 2021, Vol 45, Issue 6, p1731
- ISSN
0309-1325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/03091325211000456