Editorial: The geographies of critical geography

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 409-412

  Harvey, David ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 33750981555     PISSN: 00202754     EISSN: 14755661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00219.x     Document Type: Editorial

References (15)

1. Amin A and Thrift N 2005 What's left? Just the future Antipode 37 220-38;
2. Smith N 2005 What's left? Neocritical geography, or, the flat pluralist world of business class Antipode 37 887-97.
3. My original list was: BAnd P 1998 Uneven Zimbabwe: anatomy of finance, development and underdevelopment Africa World Press, Johannesburg;
4. Braun B 2002 Nature and power on Canada's west coast Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis MN;
5. Carney J 2001 Black rice: The African origins of rice cultivation in the Americas Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA;
6. Clayton D 2000 Islands of truth: The imperial fashioning of Vancouver Island UBC Press, Vancouver;
7. Henderson G 2003 California and the fictions of capital Temple University Press, Philadelphia;
8. Mitchell K 2004 Crossing the neoliberal line: Pacific Rim migration and the metropolis Temple University Press, Philadelphia;
9. Schroeder R 1999 Shady practices: Agroforestry and gender politics in the Gambia University of California Press, Berkeley CA;
10. Sparke M 2005 In the space of theory: Postfoundational geographies of the nation state Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis MN.
11. The British monographs that I subsequently thought of were Gandy M 2003 Concrete and clay: Reworking nature in New York City MIT Press, Cambridge MA and
12. Kaika M 2005 City of flows: Modernity, nature and the city Routledge, New York.
13. See Thrift N 2002 The future of geography Geoforum 33 291-8, who also makes this point.
14. I first detected this back in 1987 when I wrote a somewhat contentious article on 'Three myths in search of a reality in urban studies' Society and Space 5 367-86. Many then on the left were outraged. But when we look at the career trajectories and publications of many who were on the left at that time, the appalling depth and width of this passive revolution becomes all too apparent. Against this corruption of the radical spirit, both Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift can claim with considerable justification that they have fought a noble rearguard action. I, for one, certainly appreciate their efforts on that front.
15. Badiou A 2005 Metapolitics Barker J trans Verso, London.