ABSTRACT
In the present period, we are involved with processes of political economic restructuring and transformation, ones that I shall go on to describe in terms of a possible shift beyond that historical system of accumulation and social regulation which has been called Fordism. At the heart of these historical developments-and this is the major concern of the following discussion-is a process of radical spatial restructuring and reconfiguration. It is at once a transformation of the spatial matrix of accumulation and of the subjective experience of, and orientation to, space and spatiality. Its analysis, I want to argue, demands a social theory that is informed by the ‘geographical imagination’ (Gregory, 1988).
