Monthly Archives: November 2012

GURU ‘Justice and the City’ conference

Posted on November 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Newcastle University, 15-16 November, “Justice and the City”. Speakers include Jean Hillier, Patsy Healey, Stephen Graham, Don Mitchell and Matthew Gandy. Full details here.

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Posted on November 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Good piece on Nate Silver’s methods. And a great line about ‘the audacity of competence’.

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Posted on November 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko on forthcoming Agamben translations.

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Shakespearean Territories – Durham, Oxford, York

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

I’m giving various talks on my Shakespearean Territories project over the next few months. In November, I’ll be speaking in my own department at a workshop on Politicised Literary Geographies, and then to the 1887 Society at Mansfield College, University … Continue reading →

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Gaston Gordillo – The Destruction of Space

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

At Space and Politics, Gaston Gordillo has posted a fascinating excerpt from his forthcoming book The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space. Here’s the opening paragraph: The violent destruction of the void of the Gran Chaco by the state … Continue reading →

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Obama, Drones, and FiveThirtyEight

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Despite the disappointments of his first term, and the drones, I was still pleased to see Obama’s reelection. Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight was indeed very accurate.

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Posted on November 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Te Ipu Pakore: The Broken Vessel:
My essay on the essay has been published at Text: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses. It’s called “Terra (In)cognita: Mapping Academic Writing“: Students and teachers alike bemoan the sorry state…

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Tips on Publishing

Posted on November 6, 2012 by stuartelden

These tips at the Sociological Imagination might appear common sense, but are well worth a look – as an editor I am continually amazed at how often these are not followed… (via David Beer).

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FiveThirtyEight – counting the US election

Posted on November 6, 2012 by stuartelden

I probably should have posted this a while back, but this blog at the NY Times has been the most useful thing I’ve being reading on the US election and the complications of the Electoral College system. One of the … Continue reading →

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Naomi Klein on Hurricane Sandy

Posted on November 6, 2012 by stuartelden

In The Nation.

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