David Harveyapplying a theoretical base to empirical

issues

Biography

• Born 1935 Gillingham, Kent, England • Raised in England during WWII• St. John’s College, Cambridge PHD

1961• Move to US 1969• Reads Marx 1969• Proffesor (CUNY), lecturer, authour

Major Works• Explanation in Geography (1969)• Social Justice and the City (1973)• The Limits to Capital (1982)• The Urbanization of Capital (1985)• Consciousness and the Urban Experience (1985)• The Condition of Postmodernity (1989)• The Urban Experience (1989)• Teresa Hayter, David Harvey (eds.) (1994) The Factory and the City: The Story of the Cowley

Automobile Workers in Oxford. Thomson Learning• Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference (1996)• Megacities Lecture 4: Possible Urban Worlds, Twynstra Gudde Management Consultants,

Amersfoort, The Netherlands, (2000)• Spaces of Hope (2000)• Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography (2001)• The New Imperialism (2003)• Paris, Capital of Modernity (2003)• A Brief History of Neoliberalism (2005)• Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (2006)• The Limits to Capital New Edition (2006)• The Communist Manifesto- New Introduction Pluto Press (2008)• An Introduction to Capital (forthcoming 2009)

Geography

“the philosophers have only interpreted the world the point is to change it” Marx (thesis 11)

• Working with a Marxist Methodology

• Alienated Labour• Materialism + Idealism (“Historical

Materialism”)• Functional explanations• “Species Being”• Production

Capital Volume 1

• Gentrification• Urbanization• Globalization• Neoliberalism• Imperialism• Environmentalism

• Marxist historical materialism + Geographical perspective

• Disecting Specimen

• Rehabilitating utopian thinking

Explanation in Geography

The Limits to Capital

The Condition of Postmodernity

Justice Nature and the Art of Difference

Spaces of Hope

The New Imperialism

Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development

Spaces of Hope• Introduction

Part 1

• Uneven geographical developments

Part 2

• On bodies and political persons in global space

Part 4

• Conversations on the plurality of alternatives

Appendix

• Edilia or ‘Make of it what you will’

Access to David Harvey

http://davidharvey.org/

Critics of David Harvey

• Whats missing (shortcomings)?

• Harvey vs. Adorno

• Who hangs with Harvey (who does Harvey hang with)?

• What does Harvey map out for us?