Marxism and the City

Marxism and the City
Author: Ira Katznelson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 1992
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0198279248

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In this work, Katznelson critically analyzes the development of Marxist scholarship on cities in the last quarter century. He demonstrates how some of the most important weaknesses in Marxism as a social theory can be remedied by forcing it to seriously engage with cities and spatial concerns, and explains the significant shortcomings even of this "improved" Marxism. Katznelson explores how a Marxism that is open to engagement with other social-theoretical traditions can help illuminate our understanding of cities and the patterns of class and group formation that have characterized urban life in the West.

Metromarxism

Metromarxism
Author: Andrew Merrifield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135024855

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"Metromarxism" discusses Marxism's relationship with the city from the 1850s to the present by way of biographical chapters on figures from the Marxist tradition, including Marx, Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, and David Harvey. Each chapter combines interesting biographical anecdotes with an accessible analysis of each individual's contribution to an always-transforming Marxist theory of the city. He suggests that the interplay between the city as center of economic and social life and its potential for progressive change generated a major corpus of work. That work has been key in advancing progressive political and social transformations.

Marxist Thought and the City

Marxist Thought and the City
Author: Henri Lefebvre
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: PHILOSOPHY
ISBN: 9780816698745

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Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Foreword -- Stuart Elden -- Introductory Note -- Henri Lefebvre -- Marxist Thought and the City -- 1. The Situation of the Working Class in England -- 2. The City and the Division of Labor -- 3. Critique of Political Economy -- 4. Engels and Utopia -- 5. Capital and Land Ownership -- Conclusion -- Notes

Marxism and the Metropolis

Marxism and the Metropolis
Author: William K. Tabb
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1984
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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Marxism and Urban Culture

Marxism and Urban Culture
Author: Benjamin Fraser
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0739191586

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Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities—Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna—the contributions fuse political and theoretical concerns with analyses of urban cultural practices and historical movements, as well as urban-themed literary and filmic art. Conceived as a response to the persistent rift between disciplinary Marxist approaches to culture, this book prioritizes the urban problematic and builds implicitly and explicitly on work by numerous thinkers: not only Karl Marx but also David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Friedrich Engels and Antonio Gramsci, among others. Rather than reanimate reductive views either of Marx or of urban theory, the chapters in Marxism and Urban Culture speak broadly to the interdisciplinary connections that are increasingly the concern of cultural scholars working across and beyond the boundaries of geography, sociology, history, political science, language and literature fields, film studies, and more. A foreword written by Andy Merrifield (the author of Metromarxism) and an introduction by Benjamin Fraser (the author of Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience) situate the book’s chapters firmly in interdisciplinary terrain.

Social Justice and the City

Social Justice and the City
Author: David Harvey
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0820336041

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Throughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship between politics, capitalism, and the social aspects of geographical theory. Laying out Harvey's position that geography could not remain objective in the face of urban poverty and associated ills, Social Justice and the City is perhaps the most widely cited work in the field. Harvey analyzes core issues in city planning and policy--employment and housing location, zoning, transport costs, concentrations of poverty--asking in each case about the relationship between social justice and space. How, for example, do built-in assumptions about planning reinforce existing distributions of income? Rather than leading him to liberal, technocratic solutions, Harvey's line of inquiry pushes him in the direction of a "revolutionary geography," one that transcends the structural limitations of existing approaches to space. Harvey's emphasis on rigorous thought and theoretical innovation gives the volume an enduring appeal. This is a book that raises big questions, and for that reason geographers and other social scientists regularly return to it.

Adventures in Marxism

Adventures in Marxism
Author: Marshall Berman
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1999
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781859843093

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Citing a lifelong engagement with Marxism, critic and writer Marshall Berman reveals the movement's positive points and suggests a new beginning for Marxism may be on the horizon with its recent 150th anniversary attention.

Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism

Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism
Author: Kohei Saito
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1583676406

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"Delving into Karl Marx's central works as well as his natural scientific notebooks, published only recently and still being translated, [the author] argues that Karl Marx actually saw the environment crisis embedded in captialism. [The book] shows us that Marx has given us more than we once thought, that we can now come closer to finishing Marx's critique, and to building a sustainable ecosocialist world."--Page [4] of cover.

Metromarxism

Metromarxism
Author: Andy Merrifield
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780415933483

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This accessible account of Marxism and the city covers their relationship from the 1850s to the present through biographical chapters on eight towering figures in the Marxist tradition: Marx, Engels, Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, Manuel Castells, David Harvey and Marshall Berman.