Abstract
This paper utilizes oncology as the thematic core of an interdisciplinary narrative describing spatial tensions between capitalism and developments in the countervailing social and solidarity economy (SSE). This exercise explores oncology as metaphor, as a methodological model, and for intervention and policy change. A Marxian framework supports this narrative construction. Vampires, the fundamental class process, and the circuit of money capital are concepts that link the genetics of cancer and recent advances in oncology research to political economy. The application of geographic information system (GIS) technology contributes a spatial dimension to this story. Maps and exploratory spatial data analysis of the metamorphoses generated across the stages of the circuit of money capital present GIS’s capacity to replicate the genetic mapping of cancer mutations used in oncology. In addition to diagnostics, genetic mapping enables targeted patient-specific hormonal treatments. Similarly, it is argued that the SSE is an effective locational treatment strategy for the adverse effects of capitalism’s metabolic processes.
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