Monthly Archives: June 2013

PhD Studentships in Geopolitics, Cyber Security and Society at Royal Holloway

PhD Studentships in Geopolitics, Cyber Security and Society at Royal Holloway – with an excellent supervision team.

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The Events in Turkey: A Virtual Theme Issue for Background

At the Society and Space open site – a brief commentary by Peter Gratton and links to five open access papers that provide a background to recent events in Turkey.

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On refusing unpaid work

I was recently asked to write an entry on a topic I’m very interested in, for another multi-volume Encyclopedia. I’ve written about my doubts about yet more of these ventures before here and here. This one wants a 4,500 word … Continue reading

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Antipode Foundation funding opportunities

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
The fourth Antipode Foundation Institute for the Geographies of Justice took place last week in Durban, South Africa. It sounds like it was a great event – more on this soon. For now, though, we’re…

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How to Read Agamben

Adam Kotsko on how to read Agamben.

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Agamben interview

At the Verso blog Giorgio Agamben clarifies his ‘misunderstood’ recent piece on a ‘Latin Empire‘.

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New book: “Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention”

Originally posted on Prof Dominique Moran:
‘Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention‘ (Ashgate, 2013) edited by Dominique Moran, Nick Gill and Deirdre Conlon. This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars with…

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Books that inspired…

Books that inspired academics.

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JCRT issue on Globalisation Theory

Free to download articles on Sloterdijk, Occupy, drones, etc. in the Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory – thanks to dmfant for the link.

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Interview with Paul Rabinow

Very interesting interview with Paul Rabinow.

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