Monthly Archives: April 2012

Palgrave Pivot

Posted on April 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to announce a new imprint: Palgrave Pivot. Launching globally in Autumn 2012 and publishing across the Humanities and Social Sciences, Palgrave Pivot liberates scholarship from the straitjacket of traditional formats and business models. It offers authors … Continue reading →

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review of New Geographies 4: Scales of the Earth

Posted on April 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Nice review of this project, here – New Geographies, a publication series initiated and edited by six doctoral candidates at the Harvard Graduate School of Design… Distancing itself from conventional positions and professional boundaries, the journal collects critical essays and … Continue reading →

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Exterritory conference

Posted on April 6, 2012 by stuartelden

You can now download the programme and details of the Exterritory conference in Paris on May 2nd 2012 in a press kit. The event is taking place at the Kadist Art Foundation. Their website is here – it uses a … Continue reading →

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Every Revolution has its Space: from Occupying Squares to Transforming Cities?

Posted on April 5, 2012 by stuartelden

OpenSpace is pleased to announce this Leverhulme Visiting Professorship event at The University of Manchester: “Every Revolution has its Space: from Occupying Squares to Transforming Cities?” Presentations by: Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester Andy Merrifield, Leverhulme Visiting … Continue reading →

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What is an author?

Posted on April 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Clare O’Farrell reflects on the question of multiple authorship in The Australian. BY the late 1960s, French theorists Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault had pronounced the author to be, if not dead, then decidedly fragile. Authorship is perhaps one of … Continue reading →

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Back to the Café Algiers

Posted on April 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Four years ago, Neil and I had a series of work sessions in the Café Algiers, just off Harvard Square. These were in preparation for the ‘Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory’ paper – though our acknowledgement of the Café itself got … Continue reading →

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Royal Holloway Geopolitics and Security blog

Posted on April 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Some of the geographers at Royal Holloway have recently launched a Geopolitics and Security blog – only a handful of posts so far, but looks interesting.

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Historical Materialism books to review

Posted on April 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Long list of books, in multiple languages, for review in Historical Materialism here.

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Cities as Constellations – interview with Matthew Gandy

Posted on April 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting interview with geographer and urbanist Matthew Gandy (via Pop Theory). Also check out Matt’s blog.

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Planetary Urbanization

Posted on April 4, 2012 by stuartelden

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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