Crisis Spaces

<p>The financial malaise that has affected the Eurozone countries of southern Europe – Spain Portugal Italy and in its most extreme case Greece – has been analysed using mainly macroeconomic and financial explanations. </p><p>This book shifts the emphasis from macroeconomics to the relationship between uneven geographical development financialisation and politics. It deconstructs the myth that debt both public and private in Southern Europe is the sole outcome of the spendthrift ways of Greece Spain Italy and Portugal offering a fresh perspective on the material social and ideological parameters of the economic crisis and the spaces where it unfolded.</p><p>Featuring a range of case examples that complement and expand the main discussion <i>Crisis Spaces</i> will appeal to students and scholars of human geography economics regional development political science cultural studies and social movements studies.</p>