Noel Castree / Derek Gregory

David Harvey

A Critical Reader
Herausgeber: Castree, Noel; Gregory, Derek

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780631235101
• ISBN-10: 0631235108
• Artikelnr.: 21677074

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors.

1 Troubling Geographies (Derek Gregory, University of BritishColumbia).

2 Between Deduction and Dialectics: David Harvey on Knowledge(Trevor Barnes, University of British Columbia).

3 David Harvey and Marxism (Alex Callinicos, University ofYork).

4 Dialectical Materialism: Stranger than Friction (MarcusDoel, University of Wales Swansea).

5 Differences that Matter (Melissa Wright, The PennsylvaniaState 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 ofDavid Harvey's Dialectical Marxism (Nancy Hartsock, Universityof 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 ofthe City University of New York).

13 The Detour of Critical Theory (Noel Castree, University ofManchester).

14 Space as a Key Word (David Harvey, Graduate Center of theCity University of New York).

David Harvey: List of Publications.

Bibliography.

Index.

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Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. David Harvey: geographer, Marxist, and
public intellectual Chapter 3. Between philosophy and political practice:
the power of critical theory Chapter 4. Contradiction, perpetual change,
and crisis: the DNA of capitalism Chapter 5. The restless and uneven
geographies of capitalism Chapter 6. Capital unbound: the commodification
of everything Chapter 7. From structure to agency: the tangled human
geographies of difference, inequality, solidarity, and protest Chapter 8.
What is to be done? Towards a more just geography for a feasible future
Chapter 9. Marxism within and beyond the academy: communicating critical
thought in a 'post-public' era Chapter 10. Conclusion: a Marxist for our
time?

Rezensionen

"The debates in David Harvey: A Critical Reader highlightthe importance of thinking about space as something materiallyproduced and in process ... The discussion also leads toconsiderations of the urban as a way of life. The tension betweenthese two strands makes this anthology fertile ground for attemptsat a synthesis."
Radical Philosophy

"David Harvey: A Critical Reader is a landmark assessmentof the work, and diverse influences, of this leadinggeographer-cum-social theorist. No stodgy hagiography, theReader presents a series of punchy, personal, political, andoften profound reflections on four decades of Harvey'scontributions. In locating Harvey and his interlocutors, theReader also suggestively maps out the shifting terrain ofcritical thinking around the spatialities of late capitalism."Jamie Peck, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"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 nipand tuck, he comes off still looking rather well for his age."R. A. Walker, University of California, Berkeley

"The Critical Reader offers a set of inspiring andnon-hagiographic reflections on the intellectual legacy of DavidHarvey that will be an invaluable read not only for geographers butfor all social scientists committed to the pursuit of a criticaland transformative understanding of the world."
Ugo Rossi, Universita L'Orientale of Naples, Italy