David Harvey: The Right to the City and Urban Resistance @ Fortaleza (en...

David Harvey's biggest lecture yet! Commenting on the conections
undelying the many grassroots resistance experiences drawn um from
social movements, and the dynamics of capitalism theorized by Marx,
David Harvey discusses some of the more pressing issues of our time such
as the relationshop between capital and politics, urban social
movements and democracy.

This lecture took place in Fortaleza on
November 17th 2014, during a series of talks entitled "The Political
Economy Of Urbanization", marking the publishing of the second and final
volume of his COMPANION TO MARX'S CAPITAL, by Boitempo. This trip took
him also to the cities of Brasília, Recife, Fortaleza and São Paulo. The
lectures also celebrated the publishing of Boitempo's new edition of
Volume II of Marx's Capital – the first edition revised and expanded
according to the documents of the MEGA2 project. Recently, Boitempo's
edition of Volume I of Capital was awarded the Jabuti Prize for
translation – the most important prize in the brazilian publishing
world. All of professor Harvey's lectures were recorded and are being
published here in Boitempo's channel on YouTube.