Monthly Archives: March 2013

Books received

Posted on March 25, 2013 by stuartelden
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David Harvey “The Contradictions of Capital” – Pratt Institute Lecture

Posted on March 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, February 26th, 2013 – “The Contradictions of Capital“.

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Angharad Closs Stephens – The Persistance of Nationalism

Posted on March 25, 2013 by stuartelden

My colleague Angharad Closs Stephens’s book The Persistence of Nationalism: From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters has just been published by the Routledge Interventions series. From the back cover: This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting … Continue reading →

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Call for Contributors to Critical Animal Geographies edited volume

Posted on March 25, 2013 by stuartelden

Reposted from crit-geog-forum: Fifteen years after the publication of the groundbreaking Animal Geographies (Wolch & Emel 1998), followed by Animal Spaces, Beastly Places (Philo & Wilbert 2000), a growing number of geographers now readily acknowledge the nonhuman animal as an … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
If I had eight hours, I’d watch all of these videos posted at the site of The Center for Place Culture and Politics: Part 1: Opening Keynote (David Harvey) and Urban Uprisings of the 1960s: Living Legacies…

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Foucault’s La grande étrangère – previously unpublished texts on literature

Posted on March 24, 2013 by stuartelden

A collection of Foucault’s writings on literature – La grande étrangère: À propos de littérature – has recently been published in France. It seems the ‘no posthumous publications’ injunction is well and truly abandoned. This volume includes pieces on Sade, … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
The AAG has posted interviews with 25 Geographers from the “Geographers on Film” Archive available here. The first interview is with Carl O. Sauer (1889-1975) from 1970 (Berkeley, cultural [geography], founded Department@Berkley 1923, AAG Pres. 1940, Honorary…

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Posted on March 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Sara Ahmed reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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Posted on March 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Interview with Lauren Berlant at the Society and Space open site. Note also her book Desire/Love is available as an open access PDF or a print-on-demand book from Punctum.

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Richard J. Evans savages Michael Gove’s history curriculum

Posted on March 22, 2013 by stuartelden

In the New Statesman, Richard J. Evans discusses Michael Gove’s history curriculum. If you don’t know who Michael Gove is, be grateful – he’s the British Government’s Secretary of State for Education.

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