David Harvey A Critical Reader

by Castree, Noel; Gregory, Derek

• ISBN13: 9780470773581
• ISBN10: 0470773588
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

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.