David Harvey
David W. Harvey FBA (born 31 October 1935) is a British Marxist economic geographer, podcaster, and 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.
David Harvey | |
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| Born | 31 October 1935 Gillingham, Kent, England |
| Alma mater | St John's College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Marxist geography, quantitative revolution in geography, critical geography, economic anthropology, political anthropology, right to the city, time space compression, accumulation by dispossession |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology, geography, political economy, social theory |
| Institutions | CUNY Graduate Center |
| Thesis | Aspects of agricultural and rural change in Kent, 1800–1900 (1961) |
| Website | davidharvey |
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 citations from academic journals in the Thomson Reuters ISI database.
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