"The debates in <i>David Harvey: A Critical Reader</i> highlight the importance of thinking about space as something materially produced and in process ... The discussion also leads to considerations of the urban as a way of life. The tension between these two strands makes this anthology fertile ground for attempts at a synthesis."<br /> <i>Radical Philosophy </i><br /> <p>"<i>David Harvey: A Critical Reader</i> is a landmark assessment of the work, and diverse influences, of this leading geographer-cum-social theorist. No stodgy hagiography, the <i>Reader</i> presents a series of punchy, personal, political, and often profound reflections on four decades of Harvey’s contributions. In locating Harvey and his interlocutors, the <i>Reader</i> also suggestively maps out the shifting terrain of critical thinking around the spatialities of late capitalism." <i>Jamie Peck, University of Wisconsin-Madison</i><br /> </p> <p><br /> </p> <p>"Few contemporary thinkers have been untouched by David Harvey, even in opposition, as this collection of brilliant essays attests. And, after the critics’ scalpels have done their bit of nip and tuck, he comes off still looking rather well for his age." <i>R. A. Walker, University of California, Berkeley</i><br /> </p> <p>"The <i>Critical Reader</i> offers a set of inspiring and non-hagiographic reflections on the intellectual legacy of David Harvey that will be an invaluable read not only for geographers but for all social scientists committed to the pursuit of a critical and transformative understanding of the world."<br /> <i>Ugo Rossi, Universita L’Orientale of Naples, Italy<br /> </i><br /> </p> <p><br /> </p>

This book critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world's most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists.
  • Considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues.
  • Written by contributors from across the human sciences, operating with a range of critical theories.
  • Focuses on key themes in Harvey's work.
  • Contains a consolidated bibliography of Harvey's writings.
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Critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world's most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists. This title considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues. It also contains a consolidated bibliography of Harvey's writings.
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Notes on Contributors vii

1 Introduction: Troubling Geographies 1
Derek Gregory

2 Between Deduction and Dialectics: David Harvey on Knowledge 26
Trevor Barnes

3 David Harvey and Marxism 47
Alex Callinicos

4 Dialectical Materialism: Stranger than Friction 55
Marcus Doel

5 Differences that Matter 80
Melissa Wright

6 David Harvey on Cities 102
Sharon Zukin

7 David Harvey and Dialectical Space- time 121
Eric Sheppard

8 Spatial Fixes, Temporal Fixes and Spatio- Temporal Fixes 142
Bob Jessop

9 Globalization and Primitive Accumulation: The Contributions of David Harvey’s Dialectical Marxism 167
Nancy Hartsock

10 Towards a New Earth and a New Humanity: Nature, Ontology, Politics 191
Bruce Braun

11 David Harvey: A Rock in a Hard Place 223
Nigel Thrift

12 Messing with ‘the Project’ 234
Cindi Katz

13 The Detour of Critical Theory 247
Noel Castree

14 Space as a Keyword 270
David Harvey

David Harvey: List of Publications 295

Bibliography 303

Index 318

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David Harvey is among the most distinguished and influential Marxist theorists of his generation. For over three decades he has published works of major insight and originality that have challenged and altered dominant intellectual-political frameworks of understanding in urban studies, geography, sociology and beyond. He remains one of the most trenchant contemporary critics of global capitalism and its effects.

This book critically interrogates Harvey's work as a geographer, a Marxist and a public intellectual. Comprising a series of newly commissioned essays written by contributors from across the human sciences, it considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism and the role of space in capitalist accumulation to environmental issues and postmodernism. To aid further study and research, the volume also contains a consolidated bibliography of Harvey's writings.

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780631235101
Publisert
2006-01-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Wiley-Blackwell
Vekt
508 gr
Høyde
231 mm
Bredde
154 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Biographical note

Noel Castree is a Professor in the School of Environment and Development at Manchester University. His previous publications include Nature: The Adventures of an Idea (2005), Spaces of Work (2004), Social Nature (Blackwell Publishing, 2001) and Remaking Reality (1998).

Derek Gregory is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. His previous publications include The Colonial Present (Blackwell Publishing, 2004) and Geographical Imaginations (Blackwell Publishing, 1995).