1. The clearest summary of Harvey’s work will be found in his ‘The Geopolitics of Capitalism’, in Derek Gregory and John Urry (eds) Social Relations and Spatial Structures (London: Macmillan, 1985) pp. 128–163. (Many of the essays in this book are directly relevant to the themes addressed in the present chapter).
2. For more detail, sample the essays collected together in Harvey’s Consciousness and the Urban Experience and The Urbanization of Capital (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985). For Doreen Massey, see her chapter with Richard Meegan in this volume and the references given there.
3. The best introduction to Giddens’s ideas is still, in my view, his A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism Volume 1: Power, Property and the State (London: Macmillan, 1981). New readers should begin at Chapter 3!
4. George Marcus and Michael Fischer, Anthropology as Cultural Critique: an experimental moment in the human sciences (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986) is essential reading for anyone interested in he problem of description and representation.
5. I have developed these ideas further in my The Geographical Imagination (London: Hutchinson, forthcoming).