Monthly Archives: January 2013

Dittmer on Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography

Posted on January 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Jason Dittmer reviews Robert Kaplan’s The Revenge of Geography at The New Inquiry. Thanks to Territorial Masquerades for the link (also points to some discussions of Jarad Diamond’s new book).

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Klaus Dodds, The Antarctic – interview

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Klaus Dodds’s The Antarctic: A Very Short Introduction is the focus of an interview at Exploring Geopolitics.

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Neve Gordon on the Israeli election

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

In diagrams at the London Review of Books blog. This is the way the results of the elections are being presented in the Israeli press: Centre Left Bloc                                           Right Bloc Other, perhaps more … Continue reading →

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Allen Scott – A World in Emergence

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Allen Scott’s book A World in Emergence: Cities and Regions in the 21st Century is now out. Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book … Continue reading →

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A history of the concept of distance?

Posted on January 24, 2013 by stuartelden

At Open Geography, Jeremy Crampton reports a conversation: A colleague recently asked me if geographers have written anything on the history of distance as a concept, especially since the Medieval period and the early modern. (He had in mind Elden’s … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 23, 2013 by stuartelden

An interesting possibility in the Open Access debates.

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Robert Pippin on Žižek’s Less Than Nothing

Posted on January 23, 2013 by stuartelden

A detailed and thoughtful review at Mediations – thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz for the link.

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Posted on January 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Geopiracy: Oaxaca, Militant Empiricism, and Geographical Thought. 2013. By Joel Wainwright. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Joel Wainwright’s new book is an indispensable contribution to the Bowman Expeditions controversy. Geopiracy is an intervention in the “Bowman Expeditions” and…

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The Birth of Territory – draft blurb

Posted on January 21, 2013 by stuartelden

The Birth of Territory is inching its way towards publication. The proofs are due within a month, and the index needs to be compiled. I’ve just sent in the ‘author questionnaire’, which marketing will use as a basis for their … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 21, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
Welcome to the Anthropocene website up and going, here is the opening video:

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