There is a long interview I conducted with Michael Watts (University of California, Berkeley) available open access at the Society & Space open site.
We talk about, among other things – his first book Silent Violence (recently available in a new edition); oil and the Niger Delta; Boko Haram; political ecology and political economy; geographies of violence, including RETORT’s Afflicted Powers; Clarence Glacken and a forthcoming collection of his unpublished and uncollected writings, co-edited by Michael; and the Dictionary of Human Geography and the state of the discipline. As well as providing very interesting and revealing answers to my questions, Michael also shared a number of stunning photographs from his archive.
Discover more from Progressive Geographies
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
http://newbooksinurbanstudies.com/2015/01/02/carl-h-nightingale-segregation-a-global-history-of-divided-cities/
The url has died. In fact, what is S&S doing with its online material now?
back, new url http://societyandspace.org/2015/01/03/michael-watts-interviewed-by-stuart-elden/
Thanks for this – I’ve updated the link. When the editors of the journal migrated from societyandspace.com to societyandspace.org all the material was carried over, but the links are out of date. (I no longer am involved in the journal.) I linked to too much material there to update all the historical posts, but will amend if I can. Generally, see question 4 here – https://progressivegeographies.com/about/faqs/