Noel Castree & Derek Gregory 
David Harvey 
A Critical Reader

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,
operating with a range of critical theories.

* Focuses on key themes in Harvey’s work.

* Contains a consolidated bibliography of Harvey’s writings.

Table of Content

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).