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HENRI LEFEBVRE: SPACE, TIME, AND CHANGES IN THE REGIONAL ECONOMY
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paper emphasizes Lefebvre's interpretation of relational space as a social
construct that enabled a "spatial turn" in the social sciences in the
late 1960s. This is evidenced by his most important essays and books (1968,
1991, 2003) on space, the results of which have been transposed into other
disciplines, as evidenced by works from a wide range of social sciences, from
geography (Harvey, 1973; Soja, 1989; Peet, 1998; Dear, 2000; Elden, 2004;
Castree, 2004; Shields, 2011; Gregory, 2015), spatial planning, urbanism and
urban studies (Kipfer, 2008; Goonewardena, 2008) to economics (Berend, 2009;
Nijkamp, 2012, Capello, 2016, Suwala, 2021). This led to theoretical bases
for new disciplinary directions in geography (radical and postmodern geography)
and regional economy by introducing a new classification of relational space
(diverse-stylized and diverse-relational). Understanding this epistemological
transition is possible through different concepts of space and absolute,
relative, relational. Broader ontological reasoning is needed, and this has
been provided by numerous theorists, such as sociologists (Blaas and Foster,
1992; Schmidt, 2008) to philosophers and social theorists (Bachelard, 1969;
Foucault, 1984; Prigge, 2008; Cusset, 2015; Knoblauch and Löw, 2017). In this
way, the theory of the social production of space became widely accepted.
Still, the ideological component of that concept (material social practice as a
Marxist thesis) became the antithesis of the emerging poststructuralist
antithesis (fragmentation of socio-cultural issue of nations, through cultural
studies, into numerous identity micro groups) led to a neoliberal synthesis
(privatization and deregulation of the market, to strengthen the role of
financial capital in socio-economic relations).
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