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Spaces of Hope (Paperback)
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As the twentieth century drew to a close, the rich were getting
richer; power was concentrated within huge corporations; vast
tracts of the earth were being laid waste: three-quarters of the
world's population had no control of its destiny and no claim to
basic rights. There was nothing new in this. What was new was the
virtual absence of any political will to do anything about it.
Spaces of Hope takes issue with this. David Harvey brings an
exciting perspective to two of the principal themes of contemporary
social discourse; globalization and the body. Exploring the uneven
geographical development of late twentieth-century capitalism , and
the working body in relation to this new geography of production
and consumption, he finds in Marx's writings a wealth of relevant
analysis and theoretical insight. In order to make much needed
changes, he maintains, we need to become the architects of a
different living and working environment and learn to bridge the
micro-scale of the body and the personal and the macro-scale of
global political economy. Utopian movements have for centuries
tried to construct a just society. David Harvey looks at their
history to ask why they failed and what the ideas behind them might
still have to offer. His devastating description of the existing
urban environment (Baltimore is his case study) fuels his argument
that we can and must use the force of utopian imagining against all
who say 'there is no alternative'. He outlines a new kind of
utopian thought, which he calls 'dialectical utopianism' and
refocuses our attention on possible designs for a more equitable
world of work and living with nature. If any political ideology or
plan is to work, he argues, it must take account of our human
qualities, the capacities and powers inherent in nature, and the
dynamics of change. Finally, Harvey dares to sketch a very personal
utopian vision in an appendix, one that leaves no doubt about his
own geography of hope.
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