From the economic geography of crises to critical economic geographycontributions from Spain

Resumen

Economic geography claims to be a critical discipline since the blossomingof the radical perspective in the 1970s. Each economic crisis has given impetus toresearch on the dialectical relationship between capitalist accumulation and territorialtransformations at different scales. However, since the real estate and financial crisisafter 2008, the study of these economic downturns and their impacts coexists with awealth of research topics focused on the systemic critique of capitalism: financialization,overpressure on territory, real estate dispossession, social innovation, or the proliferationof critical and alternative economies are just but some of these new insights. This textsummarizes the contributions of Spanish economic geography to these researchconcerns. A brief outline of the Economic Geography Specialty Group of the SpanishGeography Association is also included.