Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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).

Reviews

"The debates in David Harvey: A Critical Reader highlight the importance of thinking about space as something materially produced and in process ... The discussion also leads to considerations of the urban as a way of life. The tension between these two strands makes this anthology fertile ground for attempts at a synthesis."
Radical Philosophy
"David Harvey: A Critical Reader is a landmark assessment of the work, and diverse influences, of this leading geographer-cum-social theorist. No stodgy hagiography, the Reader presents a series of punchy, personal, political, and often profound reflections on four decades of Harvey’s contributions. In locating Harvey and his interlocutors, the Reader also suggestively maps out the shifting terrain of critical thinking around the spatialities of late capitalism." Jamie Peck, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Few contemporary thinkers have been untouched by David Harvey, even in opposition, as this collection of brilliant essays attests. And, after the critics’ scalpels have done their bit of nip and tuck, he comes off still looking rather well for his age." R. A. Walker, University of California, Berkeley
"The Critical Reader offers a set of inspiring and non-hagiographic reflections on the intellectual legacy of David Harvey that will be an invaluable read not only for geographers but for all social scientists committed to the pursuit of a critical and transformative understanding of the world."
Ugo Rossi, Universita L’Orientale of Naples, Italy