About David Harvey

David Harvey is a distinguished professor of Anthropology at the Centre for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Centre, City University of New York. He is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies and has been hailed as one of the most influential geographers of the late twentieth century.  David Harvey earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University and has since been affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, London School of Economics and Oxford University. He has also held a range of foreign visiting appointments, most recently as acting Advisory Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai. David Harvey has received numerous awards and honorary degrees. He works primarily on the political economy of urbanization and on the theories and practices of uneven geographical development on a global scale. His reflections on the importance of space and place (and more recently - nature) have attracted considerable attention across the humanities and social sciences. He also has related interests in cultural transformations, utopianism and environmental change.

David Harvey is responsible for a long list of publications and his highly influential books include:
 

• Cosmopolitanism and the geographies of freedom (Scheduled to be published in 2009)
• The Condition of Postmodernity, 1989
• Limits to Capital, 1982