Critical Attitude to the Function of Capital in the Urban Space of a Geopolitical Aspect

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 Ph. D Candidate of Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

2 Professor Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

3 Professor Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

4 Assistant Political Geography, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

چکیده

From the geopolitics point of view, the city is considered a geographic space that a variety range of actors competes with each other for achieving power and benefits, and in this proceeding, economy and capital are in the spotlight. It can be said function of capital in urban space is much-expanded that causing the formation of contesting, so capital is studied in urban geopolitics. For this reason, capital is the major issue of this study and authors have tried to show how capital affects the spaces of urban geography with a critical approach. Ontologically, this study is descriptive-analytical research and has used library methodology to achieve the goals. Results demonstrate which, from a critical geopolitics point of view urban space is an important focus for presenting the appearance of spatial political economy, which in its framework a collection of spatial proceedings and functions of capital, is recognizable and displayable.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

Critical Attitude to the Function of Capital in the Urban Space of a Geopolitical Aspect

نویسندگان [English]

  • Mojtaba Shoeibi 1
  • Zahra Ahmadipour 2
  • Mohammad Reza Hafeznia 3
  • Morteza Ghourchi 4
1 Ph. D Candidate of Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
2 Professor Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
3 Professor Political Geography, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
4 Assistant Political Geography, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
چکیده [English]

From the geopolitics point of view, the city is considered a geographic space that a variety range of actors competes with each other for achieving power and benefits, and in this proceeding, economy and capital are in the spotlight. It can be said function of capital in urban space is much-expanded that causing the formation of contesting, so capital is studied in urban geopolitics. For this reason, capital is the major issue of this study and authors have tried to show how capital affects the spaces of urban geography with a critical approach. Ontologically, this study is descriptive-analytical research and has used library methodology to achieve the goals. Results demonstrate which, from a critical geopolitics point of view urban space is an important focus for presenting the appearance of spatial political economy, which in its framework a collection of spatial proceedings and functions of capital, is recognizable and displayable.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Urban Space
  • Geopolitics
  • Capital
  • the Political Economy of Space
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