Category Archives: teaching

Posts at Durham

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

Durham University has advertised a large number of senior level appointments across the university. Details here. Areas include conflict, security and borders; engaged humanities; visual culture; public policy and health; and medieval and renaissance studies.

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Blogging and teaching

Posted on May 1, 2012 by

Some interesting thoughts at Chasing Dragons.

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Planetary Urbanization

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

Fascinating wide-ranging discussion with Neil Brenner’s ‘planetary urbanization’ seminar relating to space, territory, urbanization, the globe, world, nature, the planetary, species, capitalism, the state, the anthropocene… readings by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Nikolaos Katsikis, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Erle Ellis, Sarah Deyong, Timothy … Continue reading →

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Kentucky Social Theory lecture

Posted on March 31, 2012 by

The lecture was yesterday, and seemed to be well received. It was a busy day – an interview with the graduate student journal disClosure, a lunch with the faculty teaching the Social Theory seminar, the lecture itself, followed by questions, … Continue reading →

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Territory and Geopolitics

Posted on March 14, 2012 by

Yesterday was the last lecture of new material on my level 3 module Territory and Geopolitics (handbook/reading list here). There is a revision lecture after the Easter break. Obviously it’s for those who took the class to say how it … Continue reading →

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Security and Geopolitical Space – readings

Posted on February 14, 2012 by

My visit to the University of Kentucky for the Committee on Social Theory is part of a class on ‘Security’. The idea is that the four visiting speakers give public lectures and then have a discussion session with the students taking … Continue reading →

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Map fight

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

This is handy comparison tool for sizes of different countries. I was looking for a rough indicator for the size of Somalia for a lecture, and it’s almost exactly the same size as France.

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Colin Flint, Introduction to Geopolitics

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Another textbook just received, also in its new second edition, is Colin Flint, Introduction to Geopolitics. Looks good, and also useful for teaching. Chapter Five is on ‘Territorial Geopolitics’. I do admire people who can write textbooks – not something … Continue reading →

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David Storey, Territories

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

David Storey’s Territory: The Claiming of Space has now been published in a second edition, retitled Territories: The Claiming of Space. It’s a really helpful overview of events and debates and a great textbook which I use in my teaching. … Continue reading →

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University of Sydney and research ‘project management’

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

I posted the first link I was sent about the situation at the University of Sydney yesterday, in the long message about email. It is worth a look – a statement by a large number of faculty members about the … Continue reading →

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