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Fixed capital is that which is used in production as in factory buildings and machinery used in the accumulation process, while the consumption fund is made up of houses and domestic equipment such as washing machines, stoves etc. Transportation, communications and other aspects of urban infrastructure are used for both production and consumption. The third or ‘tertiary’ circuit of capital is represented in two rings of the lower half of figure 2. The left side shows how investments in innovations through science and technology circle back to increase the productivity of machinery, technical inputs and labour organization in the primary circuit.
His explanations rest largely on an economic analysis of the urban poor. Although he does supplement this analysis with occasional suggestions that practices of discrimination reinforce the economic dynamics of the urban land market, he does not explore how racism as a social force shapes urban space and society. But neglect is not the only issue with Harvey’s approach to ‘race’ dynamics. There is also a murkiness in his analysis of racialization. This becomes obvious when he Page 32 of 187 Punam Khosla, Major Research Paper Master in Environmental Studies, York University, 2005 positions racism as a hangover from the internal social relations in ‘traditional’ societies brought into modern world through the process of colonization.
In spite of extensive feminist work in Harvey’s own discipline of geography on gendered divisions of labour, income, space, and power within urban spaces, Harvey remains mute on sexism and patriarchy as influential forces of urban organization. His treatment of social reproduction is largely gender neutral, and focused either on the reproduction of capitalism as a system, or on the Page 33 of 187 Punam Khosla, Major Research Paper Master in Environmental Studies, York University, 2005 reproduction of labour power for the capitalist production process.