Ferenc Gyuris, born in 1985, studied Geography at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, where he obtained his degree in 2008. He earned his PhD in Geography at the University of Heidelberg in 2012. He works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Regional Science at Eötvös Loránd University. His interests embrace spatial disparities, the production of knowledge, and the geographies of communism and post-communist transition. In these issues he is the author of several papers published in English, Hungarian, Chinese, and Russian.

• Introduction.- The Debate Over Social Disparities and the Disparity Discourse.- Social Disparities Meet Space and Concepts Surrounding It.- A Contextual Analysis of the Emergence of Spatial Disparity Research.- Spatial Disparity Analysis and Anti-Capitalism: The "Classical" Marxist Tradition.- Non-Marxist Reactions to the Marxist Problematizations of Spatial Unevenness.- Spatial Disparity Research After the Initial Decades of Cold War: End of the "Golden Age".- And Yet Spatial Disparity is a Problem of Capitalism: Leftist Approaches in a Post-Fordist World.- Political Functioning of the Spatial Disparity Discourse: A summary.- Conclusion.- What to Do with the Discourse on Spatial Disparities? A normative Outlook.- References.

Ferenc Gyuris, born in 1985, studied Geography at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, where he obtained his degree in 2008. He earned his PhD in Geography at the University of Heidelberg in 2012. He works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Regional Science at Eötvös Loránd University. His interests embrace spatial disparities, the production of knowledge, and the geographies of communism and post-communist transition. In these issues he is the author of several papers published in English, Hungarian, Chinese, and Russian.

• Introduction.- The Debate Over Social Disparities and the Disparity Discourse.- Social Disparities Meet Space and Concepts Surrounding It.- A Contextual Analysis of the Emergence of Spatial Disparity Research.- Spatial Disparity Analysis and Anti-Capitalism: The "Classical" Marxist Tradition.- Non-Marxist Reactions to the Marxist Problematizations of Spatial Unevenness.- Spatial Disparity Research After the Initial Decades of Cold War: End of the "Golden Age".- And Yet Spatial Disparity is a Problem of Capitalism: Leftist Approaches in a Post-Fordist World.- Political Functioning of the Spatial Disparity Discourse: A summary.- Conclusion.- What to Do with the Discourse on Spatial Disparities? A normative Outlook.- References.

Ferenc Gyuris, born in 1985, studied Geography at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, where he obtained his degree in 2008. He earned his PhD in Geography at the University of Heidelberg in 2012. He works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Regional Science at Eötvös Loránd University. His interests embrace spatial disparities, the production of knowledge, and the geographies of communism and post-communist transition. In these issues he is the author of several papers published in English, Hungarian, Chinese, and Russian.

• Introduction.- The Debate Over Social Disparities and the Disparity Discourse.- Social Disparities Meet Space and Concepts Surrounding It.- A Contextual Analysis of the Emergence of Spatial Disparity Research.- Spatial Disparity Analysis and Anti-Capitalism: The "Classical" Marxist Tradition.- Non-Marxist Reactions to the Marxist Problematizations of Spatial Unevenness.- Spatial Disparity Research After the Initial Decades of Cold War: End of the "Golden Age".- And Yet Spatial Disparity is a Problem of Capitalism: Leftist Approaches in a Post-Fordist World.- Political Functioning of the Spatial Disparity Discourse: A summary.- Conclusion.- What to Do with the Discourse on Spatial Disparities? A normative Outlook.- References.