Andy Merrifield is a Marxist urban theorist. He was born in Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

 in 1960 and received his PhD from Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

. Merrifield has taught at universities in England and America and now lives in the Haute-Loire, France.

Merrifield has published articles in various left-wing publications, including New Left Review

New Left Review

New Left Review is a 160-page journal, published every two months from London, devoted to world politics, economy and culture. Often compared to the French-language Les Temps modernes, it is associated with Verso Books , and regularly features the essays of authorities on contemporary social...

and The Nation

The Nation

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...

. He is a leading proponent of the idea of The Right to the City

The Right to the City

The right to the city is an idea and a slogan that was first proposed by Henri Lefebvre in his 1968 book Le Droit à la ville. Lefebvre summaries the ideas as a "demand...[for] a transformed and renewed access to urban life"...

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Books

• The Urbanization of Injustice (1997)
• Dialectical Urbanism (2002)
• Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City (2002)
• Guy Debord (2005)
• Henri Lefebvre : A Critical Introduction (2006)
• Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination (2011)