Crisis Theory and the Current Conjuncture
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 24/09/2022

A lecture by David Harvey examining the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and its reverberations in the US as consequences of political action and underlying economic forces that must be addressed.

This visit was part of an eight-part series titled “RENEWING SOCIALISM FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM AND HOW TO GET THERE”.

The event was co-sponsored by Global Studies and the Department of Geography at UW-Madison.

David Harvey is Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) and Director of The Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Professor Harvey is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies whom Library Journal called “one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century.” He was formerly professor of geography at Johns Hopkins, a Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics, and Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford. His reflections on the importance of space and place (and more recently “nature”) have attracted considerable attention across the humanities and social sciences. His highly influential books include Social Justice and the City (1973); The Limits to Capital (1982); The Condition of Postmodernity (1989); Justice, Nature, and the Geography of Difference (1996); Spaces of Hope (2000); and Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography (2001); The New Imperialism (2003); and Spaces of Global Capitalism (2006). His most recent book is The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2010).