Towards a New Earth and a New Humanity: Nature, Ontology, Politics
Towards a New Earth and a New Humanity: Nature, Ontology, Politics
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走向新地球和新人类:自然、本体论、政治
DOI:
10.1002/9780470773581.ch10
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Bruce Braun
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作者:
Bruce Braun
The writings of David Harvey are commonly associated with the reassertion of space in social theory. This is especially true in the humanities, which since the 1990s have found in Harvey’s historical-geographical materialism a powerful means to ‘situate’cultural practices within capitalism’s changing geographies (see Harvey 1989b). Far less attention has been paid to Harvey’s ongoing interest in nature. This association of Harvey with space is in large measure warranted; many parts of Harvey’s corpus deal exclusively with the ‘socio-spatial dialectic’–arguably his most important contribution to Western Marxism–while ignoring entirely the many non-human entities that are also constitutive of the worlds he seeks to understand. As such, Bruno Latour’s (1993) trenchant critique of the ‘modern Constitution’–that habit of thought that assumes a world divided into distinct ontological domains–applies as readily to Harvey as to any