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Title: Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography by David Harvey ISBN: 0-415-93241-6 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: Brilliant revitalization of Geography
Comment: The influence of David Harvey on the academic discipline of geography cannot be overstated. With incredibly perseverance, Harvey called for greater ethical commitment right from the 1970s which saw the beginning of his career. This book charts the course of his views as they change from then till now. Before I tell you what the book is about, let me say a few words about the style: Harvey writes in incredibly moving and deceptively simple prose (though his ideas are as complicated as any of the Continental thinkers who dominate elite theory today). In a community of theorists who rival each other in being prolix and obscure, this is truly refreshing.
The first part of the book contains several essays, written between 1974 and 2000, all exploring two key themes:1) the discipline of geography and its relevance to today and 2) the nexus between certain forms of geographical knowledge and political power. Some essays are absolute gems. Specially noteworthy are the last two: City and Social Justice, and Cartographic Identities. In the first, Harvey theorizes the possibility of radical urban grassroots movements and the conditions for their 'success' (a bit problematic it must be admitted with its urbanist telos, specially for someone from the economic South like me) and in the second, he envisions a program for a synthetic study of (mostly mutually noncompatible) geographical knowledges constitued at different institutional sites (academic, the State apparatus, transnational orgs like IMF etc, multinational corporations, military, popular knowledge etc etc) as a task for geographers of the near future.
The second set of essays try with great skill (though it must be admitted that to someone not overly familiar with the historical-materialist tradition, they are hard to get through) to insert the thematics of space (especially important when one considers the growing unequality of development in today's world and the international (gendered) division of labor)in a historical-materialist tradition with the project of founding a historico-geographical materialist tradition.
In any case, WHATEVER your background read this book. You may not agree with everything but it will trulymake you question a lot of your received notions.
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Title: Spaces of Hope (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 7) by David Harvey ISBN: 0520225783 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory by Edward W. Soja ISBN: 0860919366 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre, Donald Nicholson-Smith ISBN: 0631181776 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: August, 1991 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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Title: Justice Nature and the Geography of Differences by David Harvey ISBN: 1557866813 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $33.95 |
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Title: Thinking Space (Critical Geographies) by Mike Crang, N. J. Thrift ISBN: 0415160162 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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