The capitalist valorization of space under the perspective of the Marxian Theory of Value

• Grant number: 17/13689-8
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2017
• End date: September 30, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Roberto Teixeira de Godoy
• Grantee: Paulo Roberto Teixeira de Godoy
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The historical geography of capitalism in the last two centuries is presented as a social process characterized by deep contradictions, ruptures and continuities in the ways in which society engages relations with one another and with the production of the material and objective conditions of their existence. From mere scenario of human actions, the earth's surface becomes, in capitalist society, the object of complex interactions derived from social reproduction and the specific modes of work organization historically determined by the logic of capital accumulation and valorization of value. The universalization of private property of land and the successive separations that mark and characterize capitalist social relations, it confers to the geographical space the status of space-commodity, content of use value and exchange value. In this specific sense, this is, In the perspective of capitalist relations, one can speak of capitalist production and valorization of space through the intrinsic logic of realization of the social processes of reproduction of human life. The categories on which the analysis will rest, and that they derive Of the internal movement of social reproduction of capital, such as social work, value, fixed capital, land rent, fetishism among others, They are based so much on the works of Marx, especially from the Grundrisse, Passing through The Capital and culminating in the Theories of the More-Valia, as in works, articles and essays of Antonio Carlos Robert Moraes e Wanderley Messias da Costa.Research also pursues, from the splits of the categories of analysis, the construction of a critical on the landscape of the metropolis, in order to demonstrate the contrast between "city as business" and "city as a show", through the Benjaminian concept of phantasmagoric. (AU)