The Political Discourse of Spatial Disparities: Geographical Inequalities Between Science and Propag

Introduction.- The Debate Over Social Disparities and the Disparity Discourse.- Social Disparities Meet Space and Concepts Surrounding It.- A Contextual Analysis of the Emergence of Spatial Disparity Research.- Spatial Disparity Analysis and Anti-Capitalism: The "Classical" Marxist Tradition.- Non-Marxist Reactions to the Marxist Problematizations of Spatial Unevenness.- Spatial Disparity Research After the Initial Decades of Cold War: End of the "Golden Age".- And Yet Spatial Disparity is a Problem of Capitalism: Leftist Approaches in a Post-Fordist World.- Political Functioning of the Spatial Disparity Discourse: A summary.- Conclusion.- What to Do with the Discourse on Spatial Disparities? A normative Outlook.- References.