Andy merrifield henri lefebvre biography

          Merrifield, Andy.

        1. Merrifield, Andy.
        2. I've also published three intellectual biographies on Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, and John Berger, a popular existential travelogue, The Wisdom of Donkeys.
        3. Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre is one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century.
        4. Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre is one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century.
        5. Clearly Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey and the whole s tradition of Marxist thinking about urbanization is hugely influential — I'm a product of that, passed.

          6. Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre is one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century....

          Andy Merrifield

          Andy Merrifield (born June, 26 1960)[1] is a Marxist urban theorist.

          Background

          He was born in Liverpool, UK.[1] and attended Quarry Bank School until 1976. He left school at 16 and did office jobs and travelled. He graduated in geography, philosophy and sociology from Liverpool Polytechnic in the mid-1980s.[1] Merrifield received his PhD in geography from Oxford University in 1993, supervised by David Harvey.[1] Merrifield spent most of his early career teaching geography at the University of Southampton and King's College London, before moving to Clark University, USA in 2000.

          Henri Lefebvre: a critical introduction / Andy Merrifield.

          He was denied tenure in 2003, on grounds of collegiality, having chosen to live 178 miles away in Manhattan. He moved with his partner to Lavoûte-Chilhac, south of Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne in France as an "independent scholar".[1] He returned to the academic system in 2011.

          In 2011-12 he was a Leverhulme Fellow at the Univers