Monthly Archives: March 2013

Science and the English Language – lessons from George Orwell

Posted on March 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Science and the English Language – lessons from George Orwell, at the LSE Impact of Social Science blog. Some lessons for all writers here, and of course in Orwell’s original essay “Politics and the English Language“.

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Territory, Politics, Governance – Issue 1 now available

Posted on March 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Various papers from issue 1 had been available before, but the whole inaugural issue of Territory, Politics, Governance, a Regional Studies Association journal, is now available. My paper is open access, the rest require subscription.All the papers are now available … Continue reading →

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Eyal Weizman interview at Full Stop

Posted on March 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Interview here – via the Verso blog.

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Posted on March 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
RIP Chinua Achebe, 1930-2013 Nigerian author Chinua Achebe died today at the age 82. I will never forget the first time I read Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s famous novel that mixes elements of magical realism and postcolonial…

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Posted on March 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Robert Castel, cinquante ans de pugnacité sociologique Jean-François Laé 13 mars 2013 Site Mediapart Directeur d’études à l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Robert Castel, né à Brest en 1933, est mort à…

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IJURR virtual theme issue on Los Angeles

Posted on March 21, 2013 by stuartelden

As Geographers get ready to go to LA for the AAG annual conference, IJURR has assembled a virtual theme issue on the city.

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William Connolly on Electoral Politics

Posted on March 21, 2013 by stuartelden

At the Contemporary Condition, BillWilliam Connolly on the Dilemma of Electoral Politics. Also provides the subtitle of his forthcoming book The Fragility of Things: self-organizing processes, neoliberal fantasies, democratic activism.

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Eric Hobsbawn on the Myth of the Cowboy

Posted on March 21, 2013 by stuartelden

from his final book, Fractured Times, a short excerpt on the myth of the cowboy, in The Guardian

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Posted on March 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
Don DeLillo on writing. Biblioklept View original post

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Posted on March 20, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I’m speaking about Drone strikes and the matrix of violence in Pakistan at a conference in Vancouver at the week-end – a presentation which will form part of The everywhere war – and to set…

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