All my work has argued for the importance of space (territory, distance, scale) in the construction of the social world. It has also argued that this spatial-social world is best understood in terms of social relations as conceived by Marxism.
Three articles (Workers strategies to secure jobs, Changing scale as changing class relations, Workers competition, class relations and space) explore how space enters into the construction of capital-labour relations, and how workers’ actions construct spatial economies.
Two articles (The relevance of The Limits to Capital to contemporary spatial economics, Structure system and contradiction in the capitalist space economy) theorise the spatial construction of territorial economies.
Two articles (Interview with Jamie Gough, The difference between local and national capitalism) explore the spatial construction of society, spanning economy, social life and the state.
In ‘Workers strategies to secure jobs’ I argue that space is intrinsic to political strategy and to morality, as against idealist, Kantian and simple-materialist views.
Two articles (Marxist geography, Marxism) set out the importance of Marxism to human geography, and the importance of geography to Marxism.
All of this work focuses at an abstract (‘philosophical’) level on the relations between space and social relations. I argue that space constitutes social relations at high and medium levels of abstraction as well as contingently; this contrasts with the argument of Andrew Sayer that space enters social relations only at the concrete and contingent level.
‘Social physics and local authority planning’ is a critique of positivist models of urban space.