A CRITICAL READER EDITED BY NOEL CASTREE DAVID & DEREK GREGORY HARVEY David Harvey A Critical Reader Edited by Noel Castree and Derek Gregory © 2006 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd BLACKWELL PUBLISHING 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148–5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Noel Castree and Derek Gregory to be identifi ed as the Authors of the Editorial Material in this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, record- ing or otherwise, except as permitted by the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, without the prior permission of the publisher. 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For further information on Blackwell Publishing, visit our website: www.blackwellpublishing.com 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 vi Contents 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 Notes on Contributors Trevor Barnes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Geog- raphy at the University of British Col umbia, Vancouver, Canada, where he has been since 1983. His recent work is about geography’s postwar quantitative revolution and based upon oral histories. Bruce Braun teaches political and environmental geography at the Uni- versity of Minnesota. He is the author of The Intemperate Rainforest: Nature, Culture and Power on Canada’s West Coast (University of Min- nesota Press, 2002) and the co-editor with Noel Castree of Remaking Reality: Nature at the Millennium (Routledge, 1998) and Social Nature: Theory, Practice, Politics (Blackwell, 2001). He is currently working on the politics of biosecurity. Alex Callinicos is a Professor of Politics at the University of York, UK. His recent books include Equality (Polity, 2000), An Anti- Capitalist Mani- festo (Polity, 2003) and The New Mandarins of American Power (Polity, 2003). Noel Castree is a Professor in the School of Environment and Development at Manchester University, UK. He is author, mostly recently, of Nature: The Adventures of an Idea (Routledge, 2005) and has written numer- ous essays on Marxist theory. He is co-editor of Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography (published by Blackwell). Marcus Doel is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has written numerous essays on the work of Deleuze, Guattari and Derrida and is author of Poststructural Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science (Edinburgh University Press, 1999). viii List of Contributors Derek Gregory is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Geog- raphy at the University of British Columbia at Vancouver. His previous publications include Geographical Imaginations (Blackwell, 1994) and The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine, Iraq (Blackwell, 2004); he is also co-editor of the Dictionary of Human Geography (Blackwell, 2001) and the interdisciplinary journal Society and Space. His current research centres on the ‘war on terror’ and Arab cities under military occupation. Nancy C. M. Hartsock is Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington. She is the author of Money, Sex, and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism (Northeastern University Press, 1984) and The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays (Westview Press, 1998) and numerous articles. She is currently at work on a book on the processes by which women are included in and excluded from the world economy. Bob Jessop is Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies and Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, and is best known for his contributions to state theory and critical political economy. His latest book is The Future of the Capitalist State (Polity, 2002). Cindi Katz is Professor of Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is author of Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives (University of Minnesota Press, 2004). Eric Sheppard is Professor of Geography, with adjunct appointments in the Interdisciplinary Center for Global Change and American Studies, at the University of Minnesota. He has co- authored The Capitalist Space Econ- omy (with T. J. Barnes, Unwin Hyman, 1990) and A World of Difference (with P. W. Porter, Guilford, 1998), co- edited A Companion to Economic Geography (with T. J. Barnes, 2000) and Scale and Geographic Inquiry (with R. B. McMaster, Blackwell, 2004), and published 90 refereed arti- cles and book chapters. Current research interests include the spatiality of capitalism and globalization, environmental justice, critical GIS, and contestations of neoliberal urbanization. Nigel Thrift is Pro- Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor of Geography and a Student of Christ Church at Oxford University, and an Emeritus Profes- sor of Geography at Bristol University, UK. His main research interests are in international fi nance, cities, non- representational theory and the history of time. His recent publications include Cities (with Ash Amin, Sage Publi- cations, 2004) and Knowing Capitalism (Sage Publications, 2004). List of Contributors ix Melissa W. Wright is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Geography and of Women’s Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. She has conducted research along the Mexico–US border, particularly in Ciudad Juarez, since the early 1990s. She has published articles in geography, anthropology, feminist studies and cultural studies, and co-edited Geog- raphies of Power: Placing Scale (with Andrew Herod, Blackwell, 2002). Sharon Zukin is Broeklundian Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Author of Loft Living (Rutgers University Press, 1989) Landscapes of Power (Uni- versity of California Press: 1991) and The Cultures of Cities (Blackwell, 1995) she has published, most recently, Point of Purchase: How Shop- ping Changed American Culture (Routledge, 2003). 1 Introduction: Troubling Geographies Derek Gregory There is something troubling about geographies . Harvey 2000c Destinations David Harvey’s work can be read in many ways, but whatever else it may be, it is surely both an affi rmation and a critique of the power of geographi- cal knowledges. The plural is deliberate. Although Harvey’s early writings traced and extended the frontiers of a formal if necessarily fuzzy Geography, he came to realize that geographical knowledges cannot be confi ned to any one discipline. They are produced in multiple locations, inside and outside the academy, and they shape multiple publics, for good and ill.1 If ‘geogra- phy is too important to be left to geographers’, as Harvey has repeatedly claimed, he has also insisted that the potency of geographical knowledges does not reside in the accumulation of data in inventories or gazetteers, or even in their selective diffusion through the corridors of power and the circuits of the public sphere. It resides, rather, in the use of ideas – if you prefer (and Harvey does prefer), concepts and theories – that produce a sys- tematic and ordered representation of the world that is suffi ciently powerful to persuade others of its objectivity, accuracy and truth. When I describe Harvey’s work as an affi rmation of the power of geographical knowledges, I do so because he insists that geography matters, that it makes a difference to critical analysis, and because he believes that concepts of space, place 1 See David Harvey, ‘Cartographic identities: geographical