Category Archives: David Harvey

Social Justice and the City at 40

Posted on April 24, 2013 by

Details of a conference in New York celebrating 40 years of David Harvey’s classic Social Justice and the City (via Harvey’s blog). About these ads

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Social Justice and the City – CFP for Hong Kong Conference

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

Call for Papers: An International Conference on Social Justice and the City Organised by Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, on 4th – 6th December, 2013 at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong In Memory of Neil Smith, Who Had Devoted … Continue reading →

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The AAG meeting

Posted on April 13, 2013 by

I’ve spent the last week in Los Angeles for the Association of American Geographers annual meeting. It was mainly in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – made famous in the 1980s by the readings of Fredric Jameson and Edward Soja. I … Continue reading →

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David Harvey “The Contradictions of Capital” – Pratt Institute Lecture

Posted on March 25, 2013 by

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, February 26th, 2013 – “The Contradictions of Capital“.

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David Harvey at Warwick – The Contradictions of Capital

Posted on February 27, 2013 by

The Contradictions of Capital, University of Warwick, Distinguished Lecture Series, 14 February 2013 (via Reading Capital).

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Urban Uprising! Re-imagining the City – conference in New York

Posted on November 28, 2012 by

Further details here – via Experimental Geographies. In the wake of the 2008 explosion of the current economic crisis, more and more people are actively fighting to restore what they’ve lost. Not since the ‘60s have so many people across … Continue reading →

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Gaston Gordillo – The Destruction of Space

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

At Space and Politics, Gaston Gordillo has posted a fascinating excerpt from his forthcoming book The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space. Here’s the opening paragraph: The violent destruction of the void of the Gran Chaco by the state … Continue reading →

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‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’

Posted on September 28, 2012 by

Verso have posted another one their lists – this time ‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’. Twenty books here including Marx, Paul Mason, Peter Dews, Jameson, Anderson (Perry & Benedict), Stephen Lukes, Žižek, Eagleton, David Harvey, Therborn, Balibar, Vinayak Chaturvedi, … Continue reading →

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Right to the City

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

New book on the right to the city, in Italian and English, with contributions by by Francesca Iovino, Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, Mark Purcell, Kolektyw Syrena, Marco Deseriis, and Jodi Dean. I got the link from Mark Purcell at Path … Continue reading →

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Richard Seymour – The territorial logic of the capitalist state

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

Interesting post at Lenin’s Tomb on contemporary politics, states and spaces. Some discussion of Lefebvre, Gregory, Arrighi, and Harvey.

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