David Harvey

A Critical Reader
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-631-23510-1
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Castree, Noel

Gregory, Derek

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).