Estructuración espacial en la modernidad capitalista: debates y perspectivas recientes

Abstract

This paper aims to explore the place –and how it is constructed– of the spatial dimension in different approaches that had nurtured or had developed as theories of economic geography. Discussion starts from mainstream economics (neoclassical or keynesian) and continues with the institutional approaches to regional development. Concerning these approaches, we study the basic concepts which had been taken from the relational turn of Human Geography, especially at the moment of defining their objects of analysis and their inherent spatiality. We try to characterize the treatment of space and discover its limits and difficulties, manifesting the common ground they share with conventional approaches to economic geography. Eventually, we recover the contributions of critical geographers dedicated to study space-time structure of the “modern bourgeois society”, engaging a fruitful dialogue with the relational turn which formed the basis of the institutional thinking.