David Harvey: A Critical Reader

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.

Spis treści:
Notes on Contributors.
1. Troubling Geographies: Derek Gregory (University of British Columbia).
2. Between Deduction and Dialectics: David Harvey on Knowledge: Trevor Barnes (University of British Columbia).
3. David Harvey and Marxism: Alex Callinicos (University of York).
4. Dialectical Materialism: Stranger than Friction: Marcus Doel (University of Wales Swansea).
5. Differences that Matter: Melissa Wright (The Pennsylvania State University).
6. David Harvey on Cities: Sharon Zukin (Brooklyn College, NY).
7. Dialectical Space–Time: Harvey on Space: Eric Sheppard (University of Minnesota).
8. Spatial Fixes, Temporal Fixes, and Spatio–Temporal Fixes: Bob Jessop (Lancaster University).
9. Globalization and Primitive Accumulation: The Contributions of David Harvey’s Dialectical Marxism: Nancy Hartsock (University of University of Washington).
10. Towards a New Earth and a New Humanity: Nature, Ontology, Politics: Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota).
11. David Harvey: A Rock In A Hard Place: Nigel Thrift (University of Oxford).
12. Messing with ‘the Project’: Cindi Katz (Graduate Center of the City University of New York).
13. The Detour of Critical Theory: Noel Castree (University of Manchester).
14. Space as a Key Word: David Harvey (Graduate Center of the City University of New York).
David Harvey: List of Publications.
Bibliography.
Index

Nota biograficzna:
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).


Okładka tylna:
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.