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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
To be published in April 2012 by Verso Books. Available for pre-order on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk now.

Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian thinking. But at the same time they are also the centers of capital accumulation and the frontline for struggles over who controls access to urban resources and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Is it the financiers and developers, or the people?

Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, and from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways—and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.

Paul Mason of the Guardian writes that The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is “the most complete Marxist attempt to situate the global crisis in the context of the irresolvable tensions of a system based on ‘self-expanding money'”. Read his article Books for Giving: Economics / Responses to the global financial meltdown.

The US paperback edition is published by Oxford University Press and is available now on Amazon.com.

The UK paperback edition is published by Profile Books and is available now via Amazon.co.uk and Waterstones.com.

The Enigma of Capital is the winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. Read the review in the London Review of Books.

Chapter 5: “Capital Evolves” from David Harvey’s recent book The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is now available as a free PDF download:

Chapter 5: Capital Evolves from The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (258k PDF)

Thanks to Profile Books for making the chapter available. The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism has been released in paperback in the UK by Profile Books. The second edition features a new afterword. Available now via Amazon.co.uk and waterstones.com.

The US paperback edition is scheduled for release this summer by Oxford University Press and is available for pre-order on Amazon.com. The hardcover edition is available now from Amazon.

The Enigma of Capital is the winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. Read the review in the London Review of Books.

The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism has been released in paperback in the UK by Profile Books. The second edition features a new afterword. Available now via Amazon.co.uk and waterstones.com.

The US paperback edition is scheduled for release this summer by Oxford University Press and is available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

Also from Profile books: One million views and counting…

Bert Olivier reviews The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism for South Africa’s Mail & Guardian and Billy Wharton reviews Enigma for The Examiner.

David Harvey’s latest book, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism, has been awarded the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize for 2010.

The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize is an annual prize given in honor of historian Isaac Deutscher and his wife Tamara Deutscher for new books which ‘exemplify the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition’.

Video of Professor Harvey speaking about The Enigma of Capital at the Croatian Architects’ Association in Zagreb, October 1, 2010:

Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5

Filmed and edited by Martin Beroš for SkriptaTV and Slobodni Filozofski (English site).

Comics for Economics – The New York Times links to the The Crises of Capitalism animated video.

David Harvey was awarded the The Arthur Felberbaum Award by the Brecht Forum. Watch his acceptance speech.

Audio: Interview on left organization with Against the Grain.

Review: The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism reviewed by Ed Rooksby for The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books.

Review: The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism reviewed by Chris Maisano for Monthly Review Zine.