Since the publication of the updated paperback edition of my book Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development, the organisation Academic Trailers have put together this great feature on the book. The short YouTube video captures some of the essential features of the book in a novel and highly accessible way.
A central proposition of the book is that the conditioning situation of uneven and combined development on a world scale — as the geographical expression of the contradictions of capitalism — shapes the spatial, territorial, and scalar configuration of state power. However, although shaped by the condition of uneven and combined development, it is also the balance of class forces within state spaces that alters the developmental trajectory and spatial form of statehood through emergent passive revolutionary class strategies defining the rise of a state in capitalist society.