Thrift, N. J. (2012) The insubstantial pageant : producing an untoward land. Cultural Geographies, Vol.19 (No.2). pp. 141-168. doi:10.1177/1474474011427268

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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
Divisions:	Administration > Vice Chancellor's Office
Journal or Publication Title:	Cultural Geographies
Publisher:	Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN:	1474-4740
Official Date:	2012
Dates:	Date Event 2012 Published
Volume:	Vol.19
Number:	No.2
Page Range:	pp. 141-168
DOI:	10.1177/1474474011427268
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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