David Harvey
David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, and A Companion to Marx's Capital. His website is davidharvey.orgUpcoming Events
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May 31, 2013 - May 21, 2013
London, United Kingdom
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Against Capitalism and War: Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times
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May 31, 2013 - May 21, 2013
London, United Kingdom
Firebox
Against Capitalism and War: Dangerous Ideas for Dangerous Times
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The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List
If you think the latest tome of Giddens’ Sociology is the one textbook you need to get you through your undergraduate days, think again. Impress your tutor and learn something beyond the lecture theatre with these essential Verso titles.
Bolster any politics, philosophy, economics, literature, sociology or history essay with one of these books and not only score the grade, but begin your lifelong love affair with radical writers.
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"Why aren’t the Left thinking about what the hell’s going on?"—David Harvey meets Icon magazine
The radical geographer David Harvey spoke with Fatema Ahmed for Icon magazine about his latest book Rebel Cities: From Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, the "right to the city" and ways in which people around the world can reclaim urban spaces. This is a longer version of an interview that was published in the September issue, 'Restless Cities'.
Icon: You talk about how Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York, has reshaped the city, Manhattan most of all. He uses the positive-sounding slogan: “Building like Moses, with Jane Jacobs in mind.” But you ask: “What do you do with the people who have to be moved on? Are you arguing for more static cities? Part of the dynamism of cities is that people move in and out.
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S17: On Occupy's first birthday, all roads lead to Wall Street
A year ago this Monday, a few hundred young protestors bed down in lower Manhattan to protest the corruption of America's political, social, and economic institutions. Occupy Wall Street's grievances have been famously diverse, but as the movement rounds the corner into its second year it can claim many victories: a world-wide network of over one thousand self-identified occupations, a vast ecology of movement-generated media, a worker-owned cooperative, measurably successful campaigns in collaboration with New York-based activist groups against racial profiling and unfair housing practices, and, quite recently, a report investigating the illegal practices of the New York Police Department throughout the year.
There's quite a bit to celebrate, and this weekend in New York activists from across the country converge on the financial district to ring in Occupy's new year. If you're in New York, we invite you to attend one or all of these events with us.
Discussions
Discussions occur on book pages throughout the site. The most recent discussions about the works of David Harvey are listed below.
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Is capitalism over, or is it too early to tell?
In his Nation review, Joshua Clover said that the financial bailout showed "that the price signal is dead," and that we should return to Marx to get an account of where "value actually comes from ... people laboring to produce stuff that gets sold." Given the contraction of America's economic base, and the end of the tech, credit and property bubbles, are we now facing "the possibility of an unhappy ending for capitalism?"