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David Harvey
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British geographer and anthropologist
Key facts
- Born
- David William Harvey , ( 1935-10-31 ) 31 October 1935 (age 90) , 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
- Fields
- Anthropology , geography, political economy , social theory
- Institutions
- CUNY Graduate Center
- Thesis
- Aspects of agricultural and rural change in Kent, 1800–1900 (1961)
- Doctoral advisor
- Richard Chorley
- Doctoral students
- Andy Merrifield
- Website
- davidharvey .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Gillingham
- Occupation
- urban planner
- Educated at
- St John's College
- Employer
- Johns Hopkins University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- accumulation by dispossession
- Field of work
- geography
- Movement
- critical geography
- Official website
- davidharvey.org
- Image
- David Harvey2.jpg
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- Commons category
- David Harvey
- date of birth
- 1935-10-31
- member of
- British Academy
- name in native language
- David Harvey
- writing language
- English language
- influenced by
- Karl Marx
- social media followers
- 4500
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Encyclopedic overview
David William Harvey FBA (born 31 October 1935) is a British-American academic best known for Marxist analyses that focus on urban geography as well as the economy more broadly. He is a Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). 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 citations from academic journals in the Thomson Reuters ISI database.
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