Monthly Archives: July 2011

What I’ve done so far this summer…

Posted on July 30, 2011 by

I posted my list of things to do this summer some weeks ago. I don’t feel I’ve been at my most productive by a long way, due to a whole range of things, but… The two introductions to the Sage … Continue reading →

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Handling email

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

Writing that post on writing, and the interest it seems to have generated, made me think of other things I do that help with efficiency. Back before I had a blog, I sent Graham Harman an email about how I … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Writing; Making Time for Writing

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

From Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault site - reposted with commentary at her Refracted Input blog: Does there exist a pleasure in writing? I don’t know. One thing is certain, that there is, I think, a very strong obligation to write. I don’t … Continue reading →

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Borderscapes III

Posted on July 29, 2011 by

Interesting conference in Trieste next year – details here. Invited speakers include John Agnew, Arjun Appadurai, Luiza Bialasiewicz, Franco Farinelli, Vladimir Kolossov, Virginie Mamadouh, Julian Minghi, John O’Loughlin and Claude Raffestin.

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Trevor Barnes Lecture on History of Economic Geography/Central Place Theory

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

Roepke lecture in Economic Geography 2011,  ”Notes From the Underground: Why the History of Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Economic Geography Matters – The Case of Central Place Theory”. The video is here. Allen Scott is the discussant.

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Global Politics – 2nd edition

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

I’ve just completed revising my chapter “Why is the world divided territorially?” for the second edition of Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss (eds.) Global Politics: A New Introduction. The book has an interesting approach – rather than teach international or … Continue reading →

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Left-Right in Europe since 1972

Posted on July 28, 2011 by

The Guardian has an interesting interactive map of the changing governments of states in Europe since 1972. Could be useful for teaching.

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Kant – Physical Geography translation

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

The Natural Science volume in the The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant is now listed, with a May 2012 publication date. It includes a translation of the Rink edition of Kant’s Physical Geography lectures. Though there are … Continue reading →

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Conference: Political Events and Spaces of Affect

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

reposted from crit-geog-forum: 6th September 2011, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol Organized by Dr J-D Dewsbury and Dr Maria Fannin Co-sponsored by: The Institute of Advanced Studies (University of Bristol) and The Worldwide University Network (University of Bristol … Continue reading →

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Schmitt, Foucault, war

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

Carl Schmitt, Writings on War is a new collection that gathers up some interesting, and politically appalling, pieces. Hopefully this will mean that The Nomos of the Earth is, in future, read in a wider political, and geopolitical context. By … Continue reading →

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