For a geography of crisis?

Abstract

This issue addresses the notion of crisis and Geography. The different texts that make up this edition allow a path inside the analysis of the Marxian theory of crisis and its implications for Geography and beyond. As a brief preliminary and provisional balance, we can observe a tense unity that hardly corroborates a new aspect, positively created for the discipline, around a supposed geography of crisis.

However, the need to think about the crisis of the most elementary foundations of the world society that produces goods requires an effort of theorization and analysis that, in this overview, goes beyond conjunctural cases and perspectives to correct the course of modernization. In this sense, albeit unwillingly, something like a Geography of Crisis effectively emerges from several studies that have found in the critique of value-dissociation an adequate posture to self-critically face the challenges of a society in crisis.