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The insubstantial pageant : producing an untoward land
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Thrift, N. J. (2012) The insubstantial pageant : producing an untoward land. Cultural Geographies, Vol.19 (No.2). pp. 141-168. doi:10.1177/1474474011427268 ISSN 1474-4740.
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Abstract
This paper will consider how we might think about the capitalist economy that now seems to be emerging, one based on spontaneous synthesis. Following an extended introduction, the first part of the paper examines the main changes that have been taking place in the economy grouped around the notion and value of innovation. I will argue that these changes might be thought of as adding up to a second industrial revolution. Then, in the second part of the paper, I will consider how these changes are producing a different kind of production – one that is both industrial and cultural – which is constructing naturalism. The Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the first break in human history with the natural economy. But what if the natural economy was now being recovered – by other means – as a redefinition of what counts as land? In the final part of the paper, I will then turn to modern cities and the imprint that these changes are making upon them as this new land is founded and endowed and rented out to grow new kinds of crop upon.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Administration > University Executive Office | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cultural Geographies | ||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 1474-4740 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.19 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 141-168 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1474474011427268 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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