David W Harvey was born on 31 October 1935 and is a British-born Marxist economic geographer, podcaster, and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, though he often claims to prefer the term Marxian.
22 Facts About David Harvey
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David Harvey received his PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge in 1961.
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David Harvey is a proponent of the idea of the right to the city.
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David W Harvey was born in 1935 in Gillingham, Kent.
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David Harvey has a daughter, Delfina, born in January, 1990.
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David Harvey's Explanation in Geography was a landmark text in the methodology and philosophy of geography, applying principles drawn from the philosophy of science in general to the field of geographical knowledge.
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David Harvey has never returned to embrace the arguments made in Explanation, but still he conforms to the critique of absolute space and exceptionalism in geography of the regional-historical tradition that he saw as an outcome of Kantian synthetic a priori knowledge.
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The journal Antipode was formed at Clark University; David Harvey was one of the first contributors.
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David Harvey established himself as the leader of this subfield with the publication of Social Justice and the City.
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David Harvey argued in this book that geography could not remain 'objective' in the face of urban poverty and associated ills.
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In 'Limits to Capital' David Harvey expanded and innovated Marxist theory with respect to the functioning of money and finance, and the 'spatial moment' in the unfolding of capitalist crisis formation.
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David Harvey explains how capitalism came to dominate the world and why it resulted in the financial crisis.
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David Harvey describes that the essence of capitalism is its amorality and lawlessness and to talk of a regulated, ethical capitalism is to make a fundamental error.
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David Harvey returned to Johns Hopkins from Oxford in 1993, but spent increasing time elsewhere as a speaker and visitor, notably as a salaried Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics in the late 1990s.
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David Harvey moved to the City University of New York in 2001 as a Distinguished Professor, now residing in its Department of Anthropology.
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David Harvey has spent most of his academic career in Anglo-America, with brief sojourns in France and a range of foreign visiting appointments.
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In 2013 David Harvey was asked by the Republic of Ecuador to help set up the National Strategic Center for the Right to the Territory, which he directed with the urbanist Miguel Robles-Duran until its alleged forced closure in 2017.
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David Harvey's course was put into a YouTube lecture series, which gained immense popularity and resulted in two companion books for the two volumes of Marx's Capital.
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David Harvey is widely recognized as a foundational scholar in urban geography.
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David Harvey holds honorary doctorates from Roskilde, Buenos Aires, the Faculty of Social Sciences at Uppsala University, Ohio State University, Lund University, the University of the Republic and the University of Kent.
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David Harvey was made a fellow of the British Academy in 1998, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.
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David Harvey is a member of the Interim Committee for the emerging International Organization for a Participatory Society.