Check out this insightful analysis of the economic crisis by the foremost expert on theories of crisis, the geographer David Harvey. Also, see his blog for great essays, interviews, and a full ‘reading group’ series on Marx’s Capital. And read his essay on “The Right to the City” from the New Left Review…
“We live in an era when ideals of human rights have moved centre stage both politically and ethically. A great deal of energy is expended in promoting their significance for the construction of a better world. But for the most part the concepts circulating do not fundamentally challenge hegemonic liberal and neoliberal market logics, or the dominant modes of legality and state action. We live, after all, in a world in which the rights of private property and the profit rate trump all other notions of rights. I here want to explore another type of human right, that of the right to the city.” … (read more)
