Monthly Archives: October 2014

Peake and Sheppard, ‘The Emergence of Radical/Critical Geography within North America’

Linda Peake and Eric Sheppard, ‘The Emergence of Radical/Critical Geography within North America’, ACME, Vol 13 No 2, 2014. Very interesting history of the discipline. Thanks to Sara Koopman for the link.

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A Taste for the Secret: Interview with Mark Neocleous

Interesting interview with Mark Neocleous at Critical Legal Thinking, conducted by Gülden Özcan and Ersin Vedat Elgür. The interview was originally published in Turkish.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

History of Philosophy chart What if the largest countries had the biggest populations? An interesting new world map Towards a reading list on the Ebola crisis Forthcoming (with links to some preprints) Photos from Nietzsche’s summer walks by Mark Anderson Warwick … Continue reading

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Nine visual ‘attempts to explain the crazy complexity of the Middle East’

The Washington Post has gathered together a number of visual attempts at understanding the current situation in the Middle East. Thanks to Helga Tawil Souri for the link.

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Republican Rep. Lamar Smith versus the National Science Foundation

An important story about academic research and politics.

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Ruling Climate: The theory and practice of environmental governmentality 1500 – 1800 – cfp for workshop at Warwick

Following from the Geographies of Man: Environmental Influence from Antiquity to the Enlightenment held on 16th May 2014, the call for papers for the next conference is now open: Ruling Climate: The theory and practice of environmental governmentality 1500 – 1800 – 16th … Continue reading

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Mapping topologies: review of Shields’ Spatial Questions

Rob Shields’ Spatial Questions reviewed at Society and Space.

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography – call for papers

A reminder of this conference coming up at Warwick, with a call for papers. Please spread the word in your institutions to potentially interested participants.Please consider submitting a paper for the next Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, held at the … Continue reading

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Evans & Reid, Deleuze and Fascism – now in paperback

Brad Evans and Julian Reid’s collection Deleuze and Fascism: Security, War, Aesthetics is now available in paperback. This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and … Continue reading

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History of Philosophy chart

  Embedded from SuperScholar (via Daily Nous) Update: I shared this because I thought it was interesting, and to clarify I’m not responsible for its content. I’m well aware this is Western, partial, male, white, etc. ‘Contemporary Philosophy’, especially, could have … Continue reading

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