David Harvey (social theorist and geographer)
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| Born |
31 October 1935 Gillingham, Kent, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Geography, social theory, political economy |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Thesis | Aspects of agricultural and rural change in Kent, 1800-1900 (1961) |
| Known for | Marxist geography, quantitative revolution in geography, critical geography, right to the city |
| Influences | Marx, Lefebvre, Engels |
| Influenced | Neil Smith, Andy Merrifield, Erik Swyngedouw, Miguel Robles-Durán the development of Marxist geography, critical geography and human geography as a discipline |
David W. Harvey FBA (born 31 October 1935) is the Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He received his PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge in 1961. Harvey has authored many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. He is a proponent of the idea of the right to the city.
In 2007, Harvey was listed as the 18th most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences in that year, as established by counting cites from academic journals in the Thomson Reuters ISI database.
Harvey attended Gillingham Grammar School for Boys and St John's College, Cambridge (for both his undergraduate and post-graduate studies). Harvey's early work, beginning with his PhD (on hops production in 19th century Kent), was historical in nature, emerging from a regional-historical tradition of inquiry widely used at Cambridge and in Britain at that time. Historical inquiry runs through his later works (for example on Paris). He later spent time at Queens University Belfast.
By the mid-1960s, he followed trends in the social sciences to employ quantitative methods, contributing to spatial science and positivist theory. Roots of this work were visible while he was at Cambridge, the Department of Geography also housed Richard Chorley, and Peter Haggett. His Explanation in Geography (1969) 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. But after its publication Harvey moved on again, to become concerned with issues of social injustice and the nature of the capitalist system itself. He 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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