Monthly Archives: December 2012

Mapping… – reissue of the series from Verso

Posted on December 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Verso have reissued their Mapping series.  Mapping Ideology; edited by Slavoj Žižek; Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial, edited by Vinayak Chaturvedi and Mapping the Nation edited by Gopal Balakrishnan.

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Posted on December 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Johnston on Haggett on the Quantocks.

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Babette Babich on the books that inspired her

Posted on December 3, 2012 by stuartelden

At the LSE blog, Babette Babich discusses the books that inspired her – wide-ranging and fascinating reading. Babette Babich is an American philosopher known for her studies of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and Hölderlin as well as for her work in … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Patricia Martin reflects on the end of the Quebec student strikes at the Society and Space open site.

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Books I’ve read and plan to read

Posted on December 2, 2012 by stuartelden

A book meme I took from Rob Kitchin’s The View from the Blue House and first answered a year ago. As before I’ve largely answered in relation to non-academic reading… The book I’m currently reading? Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles … Continue reading →

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Pictures of a City

Posted on December 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Some great photos of different cities collected at Urban Territory.

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Open Utopia – Thomas More online

Posted on December 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Thomas More’s Utopia, online, in Latin and English, with related materials and lots of links (via Xenotopia).

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London skyline

Posted on December 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Good piece on the changes to London’s skyline, and the complexities of politics, capital and planning regulations. Clever illustration too.

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Posted on December 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Edward Soja, Andy Merrifield and Maria Kaika on the future of urban studies (via Urban Cultural Studies).

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Chris Philo – ‘A great space of murmurings’

Posted on December 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Chris Philo, “‘A great space of murmurings’: Madness, romance and geography”, Progress in Human Geography, online early (requires subscription). Prompted by the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Foucault’s famous book commonly known in English as Madness and Civilization, … Continue reading →

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