Spaces of capital: Towards a critical geography (Book Review)
Author(s)
Martin, Gregory
McLaren, Peter
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2003
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Although he is not well-known among educators, David Harvey is one of geography's best-known social theorists and one of the most important voices on the academic left in the United States. He is an ardent defender of the Marxist theory of class, whose interdisciplinary work on capitalist accumulation and the production of space and uneven geographical development has genuine implications for those fighting for social justice in urban spaces. A British import, Harvey was a professor of geography at John Hopkins University when he stumbled onto Marxist theory in 1971, after graduate students asked him to help organize ...
View more >Although he is not well-known among educators, David Harvey is one of geography's best-known social theorists and one of the most important voices on the academic left in the United States. He is an ardent defender of the Marxist theory of class, whose interdisciplinary work on capitalist accumulation and the production of space and uneven geographical development has genuine implications for those fighting for social justice in urban spaces. A British import, Harvey was a professor of geography at John Hopkins University when he stumbled onto Marxist theory in 1971, after graduate students asked him to help organize a reading group to study Capital. The rest is history, so to speak, particularly as Harvey has now accepted a position in the anthropology program at the City University of New York. Thus, it seems fitting that Harvey has put out his latest book, Spaces of Capital, an assortment of essays written over the past thirty years, which constitute a blistering indictment of contemporary capitalism.
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View more >Although he is not well-known among educators, David Harvey is one of geography's best-known social theorists and one of the most important voices on the academic left in the United States. He is an ardent defender of the Marxist theory of class, whose interdisciplinary work on capitalist accumulation and the production of space and uneven geographical development has genuine implications for those fighting for social justice in urban spaces. A British import, Harvey was a professor of geography at John Hopkins University when he stumbled onto Marxist theory in 1971, after graduate students asked him to help organize a reading group to study Capital. The rest is history, so to speak, particularly as Harvey has now accepted a position in the anthropology program at the City University of New York. Thus, it seems fitting that Harvey has put out his latest book, Spaces of Capital, an assortment of essays written over the past thirty years, which constitute a blistering indictment of contemporary capitalism.
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Journal Title
Teachers College Record
Volume
105
Issue
1
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Subject
Specialist Studies in Education