Monthly Archives: December 2010

Social and Cultural Geography research group statement

The Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers has issued the following statement which they have asked me to pass on… The committee of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (RGS-IBG) would … Continue reading

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Dialogues in Human Geography

March 2011 sees the launch issue of the journal Dialogues in Human Geography. I was sceptical of the need for yet another disciplinary-specific journal, but the editors do seem to be trying to do something different, and I’m involved in … Continue reading

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Advice for PhD students

Bradley L. Garrett offers some interesting, useful, and sometimes funny, advice here.

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Land, Terrain, Territory

It’s been up online for some time, but this article is now finally published, and you can find the version with page numbers etc. here. It’s strange that I wrote this as the first thing within my three-year Leverhulme major … Continue reading

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How to get an academic job

Some interesting advice from Tim Morton here – a sequence of posts so scroll down to see more.

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Peter Hallward on the London protests

Peter Hallward on the protests last week – here.

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Foucault on Space

I’d planned to spend time over the last week or so on the Sloterdijk Now manuscript, but a couple of chapters are delayed so that has been put back to the New Year. I’m also without internet at home which … Continue reading

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Reading Kant’s Geography

Just finished doing the proofs of Reading Kant’s Geography. It’s a long book (ix + 372 pages without index), but I think it’s a good read – I feel I can be slightly objective since I co-edited it, rather than … Continue reading

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Slogans from the London demo

Find them here – good, bad and ugly alike (via here).

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Police violence yesterday

Nina Power alerted me to this story about yesterday [see also here]. This should be much higher up the news headlines. The Guardian is still leading with the royal issue, but in its live blog it now reports that:- The police watchdog … Continue reading

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