UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL RENTIER DEVELOPMENT IN DAVID HARVEY

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2025.e24020

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rentismo global

Abstract

This paper discusses several situations and concepts by geographer David Harvey in respect to what is here called global rentier development. The concept was not proposed by Harvey, but it is useful to structure an understanding of today’s capitalist development. We follow a trail that considers concepts and discussions by Harvey and many other intellectuals with whom he established a fruitful dialogue throughout the years. We considered, for instance, the idea of postmodernity as fundamental in the discussion of the concept of flexible accumulation, that is structuring of Harvey’s thinking about the sort of political economy that came after the crisis of Fordism. The term post-Fordism, then in use, and associated discussions were too broad to specify and explain the speedy transformations on course then. Accumulation by dispossession, another of Harvey’s fundamental concepts developed later, introduces a crucial aspect that should be considered: the rentier nature of today’s increasingly urban development.

Keywords: David Harvey, Global Rentier Development, Flexible Accumulation

Author Biography

  • Márcio Moraes Valença, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal (RN)

    Full Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. PhD in Geography/Urban and Regional Studies (Subject Group/CDE - University of Sussex, 1997). He completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at The London School of Economics and Political Science (1998-2000). He is currently a member of the editorial board of the journal Geoforum (0016-7185). He is a permanent professor in the Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Studies and the Graduate Program in Architecture and Urbanism at UFRN. He has been the Editor of the journal VIVÊNCIA (0104-3064) since 2002. He is an ad hoc reviewer for several journals, including Urban Studies, International Development Planning Review, and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Conducts research in Urban and Regional Planning, with an emphasis on urban development, housing policy, housing studies, and the political economy of urbanization and the city. He holds a CNPq Productivity Scholarship.

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2025-09-12

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Vol. 24 (2025)

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