Marxist geography

Marxist geography was adopted as a major principle following an era of positivist geography. Positivist geography took heavy criticism form many Marxist and non-Marxist geographers. David Harvey, a figurehead to Marxist geography claimed that positivism was “fundamentally floored” as it focused on models, patterns and trends which occurred spatially, rather than looking at underlying reasons that lead to those trends. Marxist geographers argued that the positivist method did not address the different reasons, either being economically or politically induced for the spatial patterns that they claimed were the fulcrum to all societies.

Marxist geography came to the forefront of geographical concepts between the 1960’s and the 1970’s. Marxist geography, an approach to human geography, uses analytical theories which identify a link between different groups of people to their hierarchical status in their social and working environments. Theoretically based around the principle o...