New Releases by David HArvey

For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx''s work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx''s three volumes and the Grundrisse. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader. In The Story of Capital, Harvey takes a synoptic approach to the conceptual architecture as a whole and guides us through the key moments, from labour and technology to the state and geopolitics, via the profit rate, social reproduction, the relationship to nature, fictitious capital and the return of the rentiers. In doing so, Harvey has produced a work which will become a key reference for all those trying to grasp the nature of contemporary capitalism.

Inspirado nas Crônicas anticapitalistas, podcast quinzenal em que David Harvey analisa as atuais conjunturas política, social e econômica global, a obra homônima apresenta ao leitor um sobrevoo acessível e aprofundado de assuntos variados como o neoliberalismo pós-crise de 2008, a ascensão da extrema-direita no mundo, o papel da China na economia, as mudanças climáticas, o mundo pós-covid e, claro, o futuro do socialismo. Sem deixar de lado a análise marxista, que é parte fundamental de sua obra, Harvey perpassa conceitos essenciais como alienação, acumulação primitiva, financeirização, etc. Com uma linguagem acessível, própria da oralidade, o autor apresenta novas maneiras de entender a crise do capitalismo global e as lutas por um futuro melhor. Ao mesmo tempo em que aborda assuntos espinhosos, Harvey também narra a esperança e a possibilidade de inventarmos alternativas para o futuro. Ele descreve, com brilhantismo característico, como as alternativas socialistas estão sendo imaginadas em circunstâncias muito difíceis. Ao entender as dimensões econômicas, políticas e sociais da crise, a análise do geógrafo em Crônicas anticapitalistas será de importância estratégica para qualquer pessoa que queira compreender e mudar o mundo.

An investigation into farming practices throughout a period of seismic change. WINNER of the British Agricultural History Society''s 2022 Thirsk Prize WINNER of the 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award "This meticulously researched book gives a detailed and authoritative history of agricultural change in the second half of the twentieth century. The book skilfully weaves together the hitherto underexplored individual returns of the Farm Management Survey with oral histories of the farmers who enacted change on the ground to offer an incisive account of the complex technological, political and cultural developments which gave rise to some of the greatest changes in English farming history. It will stand as the key reference point for those with an interest in the history of agricultural change in Britain." Professor Mark Riley, University of Liverpool At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 British agriculture was largely powered by the muscles of men, women, and horses, and used mostly nineteenth-century technology to produce less than half of the country''s temperate food. By 1985, less land and far fewer people were involved in farming, the power sources and technologies had been completely transformed, and the output of the country''s agriculture had more than doubled. This is the story of the national farm, reflecting the efforts and experiences of 200,000 or so farmers and their families, together with the people they employed. But it is not the story of any individual one of them. We know too little about change at the individual farm level, although what happened varied considerably between farms and between different technologies. Based on an improbably-surviving archive of Farm Management Survey accounts, supported by oral histories from some of the farmers involved, this book explores the links between the production of new technologies, their transmission through knowledge networks, and their reception on individual farms. It contests the idea that rapid adoption of technology was inevitable, and reveals the unevenness, variability and complexity that lay beneath the smooth surface of the official statistics.

David Harvey tackles Marx''s notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversies When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx’s Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York Public Library, he recognized it as “a work of fundamental importance,” but declared “its unusual form” and “obscure manner of expression, made it far from suitable for reaching a wide circle of readers.” David Harvey’s Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse builds upon his widely acclaimed companions to the first and second volumes of Capital in a way that will reach as wide an audience as possible. Marx’s stated ambition for this text - where he was thinking aloud about some of possible metamorphoses of capitalism - is to reveal “the exact development of the concept of capital as the fundamental concept of modern economics, just as capital itself is the foundation of bourgeois society.” While respecting Marx’s desire to “bring out all the contradictions of bourgeois production, as well as the boundary where it drives beyond itself,” David Harvey also pithily illustrates the relevance of Marx’s text to understanding the troubled state of contemporary capitalism.

Una introducción esencial al campo de la geografía histórica. Las crisis económicas se suceden una tras otra a un ritmo cada vez más infernal, dibujando un paisaje de volatilidad extrema que nos obliga a repensar las fuerzas que impulsan el desarrollo económico mundial.David Harvey, destacadísimo teórico social, nos brinda en estas páginas una crítica exhaustiva del capitalismo contemporáneo. Para ello, analiza con maestría el desarrollo del neoliberalismo en cuanto estrategia de restauración del poder de clase, la expansión omnipresente de las desigualdades y el «espacio» como un concepto teórico clave.

Os sentidos do mundo reúne ensaios escolhidos pelo próprio David Harvey, oferecendo uma síntese retrospectiva de suas mais importantes e originais contribuições teóricas. A coletânea abarca um imenso leque de temas – da ecologia à pós-modernidade, passando por imperialismo, geopolítica, história urbana, crises financeiras e as dinâmicas de urbanização – e ao mesmo tempo revela um fio condutor comum e uma coerência articulada no trabalho de edição. Harvey é um dos mais notáveis intelectuais marxistas da última metade do século e um dos autores mais citados do mundo nas ciências sociais. Com cinco décadas de carreira acadêmica e militante, escreveu diversos livros e dezenas de ensaios e artigos influentes sobre temas que atravessam política, cultura, economia e justiça social. Além de reunir artigos clássicos, a obra traz ensaios inéditos em língua portuguesa, todos acompanhados de comentários do autor, explicando o contexto da publicação original e refletindo sobre sua atualidade e sua relevância para a contemporaneidade.

Durante más de tres siglos el sistema capitalista ha dominado y configurado la sociedad occidental, sufriendo implosiones periódicas en las que pueblos y personas quedaban expuestos a perderlo todo. En este lúcido ensayo el profesor David Harvey recurre a su conocimiento sin rival del capitalismo para preguntarse cómo y por qué puede ser así, y si debe seguir siendo así para siempre. Con una argumentación sólida y documentada, el autor muestra que los episodios esporádicos de crisis en el sistema capitalista no sólo son inevitables, sino también esenciales para su supervivencia; las políticas fiscales y monetarias que no tengan eso en cuenta causarán más daño que beneficio. La esencia del capitalismo es el interés egoísta, y hablar de imponerle regulaciones y moralidad es irracional. El Enigma del Capital presenta una amplia panorámica de la crisis económica actual desde los acontecimientos que llevaron al colapso económico de 2008 hasta hoy y explica la dinámica político-económica del capitalismo. Harvey pronostica el probable desarrollo de la situación actual, describiendo cómo ha evolucionado el capitalismo y cómo se pueden controlar las crisis. Este oportuno y brillante libro abre con soltura y claridad nuevas vías que podrían conducirnos a un orden social sostenible realmente justo, responsable y humano.

A wonderful selection of photographs documenting the British buses in both Lisbon and Portugal as a whole.

David Harvey is unquestionably the most influential, as well as the most cited, geographer of his generation. His reputation extends well beyond geography to sociology, planning, architecture, anthropology, literary studies and political science. This book brings together for the first time seminal articles published over three decades on the tensions between geographical knowledges and political power and on the capitalist production of space. Classic essays reprinted here include ''On the history and present condition of geography'', ''The geography of capitalist accumulation'' and ''The spatial fix: Hegel, von Thunen, and Marx''. Two new chapters represent the author''s most recent thinking on cartographic identities and social movements. David Harvey''s persistent challenge to the claims of ethical neutrality on behalf of science and geography runs like a thread throughout the book. He seeks to explain the geopolitics of capitalism and to ground spatial theory in social justice. In the process he engages with overlooked or misrepresented figures in the history of geography, placing them in the context of intellectual history. The presence here of Kant, Von Thunen, Humboldt, Lattimore, Leopold alongside Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, Darwin, Malthus, Foucault and many others shows the deep roots and significance of geographical thought. At the same time David Harvey''s telling observations of current social, environmental, and political trends show just how vital that thought is to the understanding of the world as it is and as it might be.

Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy. David Harvey is the single most important geographer writing today and a leading social theorist of our age, offering a comprehensive critique of contemporary capitalism. In this fascinating book, he shows the way forward for just such an understanding, enlarging upon the key themes in his recent work: the development of neoliberalism, the spread of inequalities across the globe, and ‘space’ as a key theoretical concept. Both a major declaration of a new research programme and a concise introduction to David Harvey’s central concerns, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.

"David Harvey...has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." —Naomi Klein A "forensic and ferocious" manifesto on the city as a center for anti-capitalist resistance from an acclaimed theorist (The Guardian) Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do the people? Who dictates the quality and organization of daily life? Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways—and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.

A major rereading of Marx’s critique of political economy Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his seminal text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today. Delving into concepts such as “fictitious capital” and “uneven geographical development,” Harvey takes the reader step by step through layers of crisis formation, beginning with Marx’s controversial argument concerning the falling rate of profit and closing with a timely foray into the geopolitical and geographical implications of Marx’s work.

Walsall’s bus fleet was always idiosyncratic. Here, David Harvey showcases it's lavishly illustrated history.

David Harvey explores, with the help of illustrations, what happened to Birmingham buses after withdrawal from service.

Para a sociedade ocidental moderna, o capital parece tão natural como o ar que se respira, e quase ninguém pensa em questioná-lo. Mas saber o que faz o capital funcionar – e o que, por outro lado, pode abalar suas bases – é crucial para compreender sua saúde em longo prazo, bem como as vastas implicações de qualquer mudança para a economia global. É o que faz o geógrafo britânico David Harvey nesta obra incisiva, ao revelar a vanguarda de suas análises das dinâmicas do capital e destrinchar as contradições internas desse motor econômico. Escrito em linguagem acessível, 17 contradições e o fim do capital coroa o "Projeto Marx", que orienta a obra de Harvey há vinte anos, repensando Karl Marx em época de mutação e crise do capitalismo. A decisão de focar a análise nas contradições se deve em parte ao escritos do filósofo alemão, que enfatizou diversas vezes que crises do tipo que o mundo viveu em 2007-2008 são manifestações superficiais de contradições internas do capital. O objetivo de Harvey é inverter o uso da ideia de contradição como ponto final da reflexão e torná-la o início da conversa, em particular sobre o que seria uma política anticapitalista e como poderíamos entender as crises. Ao longo dessa análise sistemática, Harvey constata que, embora a forma de manifestação de algumas contradições tenha se desenvolvido desde a época de Marx, a estrutura das contradições do capital é surpreendentemente constante. Além disso, tais contradições são interligadas e interagem (às vezes se apoiam) mutuamente; e revelam um retrato muito mais descentralizado do capital do que se costuma pintar.

Examines the history of each type of single-decker and offers a fascinating insight into the history of these captivating, iconic buses.

Karl Marx''s Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century, and his assumptions and analysis need to be updated in order to address to the technological, economic, and industrial change that has followed Capital''s initial publication. In Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey not only provides a concise distillation of his famous course on Capital, but also makes the text relevant to the twenty-first century''s continuing processes of globalization. This book serves as an accessible window into Harvey''s unique approach to Marxism and takes readers on a riveting roller coaster ride through recent global history. It demonstrates how and why Capital remains a living, breathing document with an outsized influence on contemporary social thought.

With a few notable exceptions, sociological studies of poor, native-born, non-ethnic whites in rural areas are rare. This book corrects this oversight with an ethnographic study of a small, poor, white, heartland community that the author calls "Potter Addition." The community consists of some 100 families and is located on the rural-urban fringe of a medium-sized Midwestern city. Poverty, Family, and Kinship in a Heartland Community is the story of three generations of rural families who, one after another, have been driven from the land during the last seventy-five years. Harvey argues against the grain of a number of recent studies that "Potter Addition's" poverty, like much modern poverty, has its origins in the productive contradictions of late capitalism. It is not the result of some moral or motivational defect of the poor themselves. At the same time he shows, even as they struggle to survive their uncertain niche and learn how to adapt, these families play an active role in reproducing the everyday material and cultural details of their poverty from the substance of their daily experiences. Working from this premise, Harvey provides a detailed ethnographic description of "Potter Addition" and its people. The volume focuses especially on the family and kinship structures that have developed in "Potter Addition" and shows how they fit into the overall response of the poor to their uncertain and unpredictable class situation. This is a unique effort by a knowledgeable researcher who, in this work, boldly steps outside conventional realms of discourse in sociology and geography.

David Harvey looks at the iconic double-deckers of Midland Red.

David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world''s most cited social scientists. Beginning in the early 1970s with his trenchant and still-relevant book Social Justice and the City and through this day, Harvey has written numerous books and dozens of influential essays and articles on topics across issues in politics, culture, economics, and social justice. In The Ways of the World, Harvey has gathered his most important essays from the past four decades. They form a career-spanning collection that tracks not only the development of Harvey over time as an intellectual, but also a dialectical vision that gradually expanded its reach from the slums of Baltimore to global environmental degradation to the American imperium. While Harvey''s coverage is wide-ranging, all of the pieces tackle the core concerns that have always animated his work: capitalism past and present, social change, freedom, class, imperialism, the city, nature, social justice, postmodernity, globalization, and the crises that inhere in capitalism. A career-defining volume, The Ways of the World will stand as a comprehensive work that presents the trajectory of Harvey''s lifelong project in full.

Neste trabalho original e ousado, o geógrafo britânico David Harvey assume o desafio de refletir sobre a cidade mais estudada, comentada, cantada e amada em toda a história. E emerge desse mergulho, delimitado entre 1848 e 1871, com uma análise avessa ao lugar-comum. Harvey não cria a "sua" Paris. Antes, une pontos já bastante conhecidos de maneira inventiva e traça uma arquitetura totalizante que busca - com êxito - explicar por que Paris não precisa de adjetivos. Palco de três revoluções, polo irradiador de transformações quase ilimitadas, Paris embute em si um projeto de vida que se tornou planetário. Berço do romance como epopeia dos novos tempos, da imprensa como força ideológica inevitável, do realismo e do impressionismo nas artes visuais e de cânones de comportamento da vida pública e privada, a capital francesa também gerou um modelo de urbanismo absorvido e copiado em toda parte.

Em Os limites do capital, Harvey une investigação sobre as dinâmicas espaciais do processo de urbanização, interpretação ambiciosa do legado de Marx e sensibilidade aguda para reestruturação econômica em curso. Na nova edição, o autor atualiza sua releitura da crítica da economia política de Marx, com uma discussão substancial em torno da conjuntura política global e da convulsão nos mercados mundiais hoje. Os limites do capital constitui "leitura obrigatória para aqueles que buscam uma compreensão menos superficial da etapa avançada do capitalismo hoje em curso", afirma Paulani. A obra é considerada peça fundamental para compreender o instigante pensamento de Harvey, com reflexões acerca de alguns de seus mais importantes conceitos como "ajuste espacial" e "acumulação por despossessão". "A formação de geógrafo fez com que Harvey voltasse sua atenção não apenas para as questões do tempo, cruciais quando se entende que o capital é um movimento (o movimento de valorização), mas também para as questões do espaço, às quais os economistas são, em geral, cegos. Em síntese, Harvey iniciou, ainda no começo dos anos 1980, a investigação sobre como se articulam e como funcionam conjuntamente os diferentes modos de apropriação e de exploração, o sistema financeiro, o comportamento rentista e os desenvolvimentos espaciais desiguais numa dinâmica que, hoje, é o coração do processo de acumulação", diz Paulani.

Fruto dos mais de quarenta anos de cursos sobre O capital de Marx (livro I) lecionados pelo geógrafo marxista David Harvey em universidades ao redor do mundo, Para entender O capital é uma obra ao mesmo tempo sintética e densa, uma introdução para a compreensão de O capital, que chega em momento oportuno, de uma renovação do interesse pela análise das obras de Marx, em busca de um melhor entendimento das origens da falência econômica e dos nossos problemas atuais. Apesar de os últimos trinta anos, mais particularmente desde a queda do muro de Berlim e do fim da Guerra Fria, não terem sido um período muito favorável ou fértil para a economia política marxiana, este livro ajuda a abrir a porta para que uma geração mais jovem, pouco familiarizada com esse pensamento, explore por conta própria o legado de Marx. O Livro I de O capital analisa o modo de produção capitalista do ponto de vista da produção, não do mercado nem do comércio global, mas exclusivamente da produção. Na época, Marx revelou uma grande compreensão daquilo que faz o capitalismo crescer do modo como cresce. "Para Marx, um conhecimento novo surge do ato de tomar blocos conceituais radicalmente diferentes, friccioná-los uns contra os outros e fazer arder o fogo revolucionário. E é o que ele faz n''O capital: combina tradições intelectuais divergentes para criar uma estrutura completamente nova e revolucionária para o conhecimento", conclui o professor.

A fascinating collection of photographs giving a picture of life in Coventry between 1914 and 1946 through the city's bus fleet.

Climate change is a critical issue for heritage studies. Sites, objects and ways of life all are coming under threat, requiring alternative management, or requiring specific climate change adaptation. Heritage is key to interpreting the societal significance of climate change; notions (and images) of the past are crucial to our understanding of the present, and are used to prompt actions that help society define and achieve a specific and desired future. Relatively little attention has been paid to the critical intersections between heritage and climate change. The Future of Heritage as Climates Change frames the intellectual context within which heritage and climate change can be examined, presenting cases and sub-fields in which the heritage-climate change nexus is being examined and provides synthetic analyses through five overarching themes: The heritage of change among coastal communities: liminality and the politics of engagement Dwelling materials: processes and possibilities; Environmental heritage: meanings of the past – prospects for the future; Blurring the boundaries of nature and culture: the politics of anticipation; Climate change and heritage practice: adaptation and resilience. The Future of Heritage as Climates Change provides scholars, managers, policy makers and students with a much needed examination of heritage and climate change to help make critical decisions in the next several decades.

WORUM GEHT ES? Gibt es seit dem Ende des Kommunismus wirklich keine echten Alternativen zum Kapitalismus? David Harvey meint: Doch! Man muss allerdings das Wesen des Kapitalismus genau verstehen, um ihn durch einen revolutionären Humanismus ersetzen zu können, in dessen Zentrum nicht das Kapital, sondern der Mensch steht. Konkret untersucht Harvey die Anhäufung von Kapital, das fatale Wachstumscredo, den spekulativen Immobilienmarkt und den Raubbau an der Natur. Er beschreibt jedoch nicht nur Krisen, sondern zeigt auch Chancen auf. Denn gerade die Widersprüche im Kapitalismus können Anfangspunkte für neue politische und kulturelle Bewegungen sein. Die utopische Kraft dafür kommt aus den Städten. WAS IST BESONDERS? Eine fundierte, realitätsnahe Kapitalismuskritik und zugleich ein Manifest des Wandels – geschrieben von einem der führenden Sozialtheoretiker der heutigen Zeit. WER LIEST? • Jeder, der die globalen Machtverhältnisse kritisch sieht • Leser von Stéphane Hessel, Michael J. Sandel, David Graeber und Thomas Piketty

David Harvey examines the foundational contradictions of capital, and reveals the fatal contradictions that are now inexorably leading to its end

The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of coming to a close and Marx’s work remains key in understanding the cycles that lead to recession. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s most foremost Marx scholars. Based on his recent lectures, and following the success of his companion to the first volume of Capital, Harvey turns his attention to Volume 2, aiming to bring his depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and hitherto neglected text. Whereas Volume 1 focuses on production, Volume 2 looks at how the circuits of capital, the buying and selling of goods, realize value. This is a must-read for everyone concerned to acquire a fuller understanding of Marx’s political economy.

Dass Städte politische Räume sind, verrät bereits die Herkunft des Wortes Politik vom griechischen »polis«. In Städten wird regiert und demonstriert, zuletzt in Kairo oder New York. In Städte wird aber auch investiert, Geld verwandelt sich in Häuser, in Wolkenkratzer und Vorortsiedlungen. Und schließlich ist Stadtplanung spätestens seit dem Umbau von Paris durch Georges-Eugènes Haussmann immer zugleich ein Instrument der politischen Kontrolle. All diesen Themen geht David Harvey in »Rebellische Städte» nach. Er befasst sich mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen Hochhausboom und Wirtschaftskrise, mit dem rasanten Wachstum chinesischer Städte und erkundet das emanzipatorische Potenzial urbaner Protestbewegungen wie »Occupy Wall Street« und »Recht auf Stadt«.