地理学的马克思主义思考——读大卫·哈维《社会正义与城市》有感

Reflection on Geography from a Marxism Perspective: Book Review on Divid Harvey's Social Justice and the City

20世纪60年代,受到当时美国三大运动的影响,地理学界对传统地理学的反思悄然展开,其中最著名就是以大卫·哈维为代表的激进马克思主义地理学。大卫·哈维在《社会正义与城市》一书中回顾了传统地理学的研究领域及方法,首次尝试利用马克思主义原理对传统地理学中的空间、地理集聚与城市化进程、城市剩余的再分配、本体论与认识论等方面进行初步的探讨,从而初步建立起地理学激进马克思主义学派的基础理论框架,对20世纪后期的地理学发展有着非常深远的影响。

Since 1960s, under the influence of the ＂African-American Civil Rights Movement＂, ＂Femi- nism Movement＂ and ＂ Environmental Protection Movement＂, reflections on the traditional geography have been emerging in the field of geography, among which the most famous representative should be David Harvey and his radical Marxism geographical theory. In David Harvey＇s Social Justice and the Cit- y, he reviewed the fields and methods of studies in the traditional geography and attempted for the first time to use the principles of Marxism to make preliminary exploration on the spatial systems, geograph- ical agglomeration and urbanism processes, redistribution of the urban surplus, ontology and epistemolo- gy in the traditional geography. A fundamental theoretical framework of the radical Marxism geography has been established and exerts far reaching influence on the development of geography at the end of 20th century.