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David Harvey FBA
Born	(1935-10-31) 31 October 1935 (age 89) Gillingham, Kent, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	St John's College, Cambridge
Known for	Marxist geography, quantitative revolution in geography, critical geography, economic anthropology, political anthropology, right to the city, time space compression, accumulation by dispossession
Scientific career
Fields	Anthropology, geography, political economy, social theory
Institutions	City University of New York
Thesis	Aspects of agricultural and rural change in Kent, 1800–1900 (1961)
Influences	Marx, Darwin, Freud, Nietzsche, Lefebvre, Williams, Engels, Bookchin, Gramsci, Radhakrishnan
Influenced	Neil Smith, Andy Merrifield, Erik Swyngedouw, Miguel Robles-Durán, the development of Marxist geography, critical geography and human geography as well as anthropology as disciplines

David W. Harvey FBA (born 31 October 1935) is a British-born Marxist economic geographer. He is a professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He is known for his support of the idea of the right to the city.

In 2007, Harvey was listed as the 18th most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences in that year.^[1]

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