This book critically interrogates the work of David Harvey, one of the world's most influential geographers, and one of its best known Marxists.Considers the entire range of Harvey's oeuvre, from the nature of urbanism to environmental issues.Written by contributors from across the human sciences, o[...]

This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature - the material frames of daily life - are consti[...]

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privati[...]

As the twentieth century drew to a close, the rich were getting richer; power was concentrating within huge corporations; vast tracts of the earth were being laid waste; three quarters of the earth's population had no control over its destiny and no claim to basic rights. There was nothing new in th[...]

This volume provides an introduction to Sack's work and reassesses its value for sociology, linguistics, anthropology and psychology. Using a variety of examples, the author explains Sacks's ideas on method, language and "talk-in-interaction".[...]

Throughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship between politics, capitalism, and the social aspects of geographical theory. Laying out Harvey's position that geography could not remain objective in the face of urban poverty and associated[...]

Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian thinking. But at the same time they are also centers[...]

The radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy.';My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital, Volume 1, and to read it on Marx's own terms'The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in t[...]