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Patricia Quill, (858) 822-0661 Prior to his appointment at CUNY, Harvey’s illustrious career has included academic appointments at the University of Oxford, the London School of Economics, the Sorbonne, and Johns Hopkins. From a foundation in historical geography and examination of the methodology and philosophy of geography, his interests have evolved to areas of political economy and the process of urbanization; cultural, literary, and artistic transformation in history; and questions of environmental and political justice. The author of numerous books, Harvey is known for his groundbreaking work in The Condition of Postmodernity, Limits to Capital, Spaces of Hope, Social Justice and the City, Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference, and Spaces of Capital. Oxford University Press has recently published his latest book, The New Imperialism. Harvey’s lecture is co-sponsored by the Departments of Literature and History, the Division of Arts & Humanities, UCSD Center for the Humanities, and the Institute for International, Comparative, & Area Studies (IICAS). # # # Since its
founding in 1959, UCSD has rapidly risen to its status as one of the nation’s
premier institutions for higher education and attracts scholars seeking
a fresh, next-generation approach to education, research and service.
The campus supports close to 23,000 students and 21,000 employees, receives
the sixth highest amount of federal R&D funding in the nation -- $627
million last year. UCSD faculty and graduate programs are ranked by the
National Research Council as tenth best in the nation; the campus also
has one of the nation's highest percentages of faculty elected to the
prestigious national academies.
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In
his compelling new book The New Imperialism, Harvey questions
the ‘American Empire’ and the meaning of the shift in U.S.
politics from consensus to coercion on the world stage. According to Richard
Sennett, Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics, “David
Harvey has written a profound, and profoundly disturbing, book. For thirty
years his writings have taken aim at the complacent conviction that what
exists works. Harvey is a scholarly radical; his writing is free of journalistic
cliches, full of facts and carefully thought-through ideas. This book
is beautifully crafted, its prose accessible, its narrative one of mounting
intensity and urgency. The New Imperialism mounts a stunning
indictment of our present institutions of power, while offering hopeful
insights about how these institutions could be changed.”