Urban public spaces have become focal points for mass uprisings and occupations. There is
thus a significant spatial dimension to the movement against austerity. This article looks for
clues to how to theorize the relation between space and “saying no” to austerity in the work
of Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey. The article finds that the two versions of the “production
of space” offered up by these ostensibly complementary thinkers are not as easily
reconcilable as one might be led to think—and notwithstanding their respective …

… This paper is motivated by Holloway’s part-spatial conceptualization of cracks, but also
out of an engagement with two avowedly dialectical and Marxist thinkers of space whose
works have found contemporary resonance in the anti-austerity-related slogan of ‘the right to
the city’: Henri Lefebvre and David Harvey. In searching for initial clues to the connectivity
between time, space and negation, I find that the two versions of the production of space
offered up by Lefebvre, on the one hand, and Harvey, on the other, are not as easily … While …