Monthly Archives: March 2015

Interview with John Pickles

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Matt Wilson and I interviewed John Pickles recently about the history of critical cartography, the Friday Harbor meetings in 1993 and Brian Harley. This has now appeared in Cartographica as part of a special issue…

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Open Letter from Faculty, Emeriti and Librarians of the University of Toronto

Open Letter from Faculty, Emeriti and Librarians of the University of Toronto on the ongoing strike action – more here and on Twitter.

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Update on University of Surrey’s Politics department under threat

University of Surrey’s Politics department update: There is a story in Times Higher Education but also some reports that the University is reconsidering. Facebook page ‘Save Surrey’s Politics Department‘ Twitter hashtag #savesurreypolitics petition to sign and share

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University of Surrey’s Politics department under threat

University of Surrey’s Politics department is under serious threat. Apparently “the current staff of 14 lecturers/professors will be reduced to 5. The current staff have received their redundancy notices and will have to re-apply to one of the 5 positions. … Continue reading

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“University Freiburg: Husserl and Heidegger Remain in Freiburg” – clarification

The University of Freiburg has issued a clarification: “University Freiburg: Husserl and Heidegger Remain in Freiburg” (via Enowning).

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

I was away for much of the week, so not that many new posts. Umberto Eco – How to Write a Thesis (MIT Press) New Series at Edinburgh: New Perspectives in Ontology Judy! – the 1993 Judith Butler fanzine available … Continue reading

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What We Talked About At ISA: Weaponising Geography and the Global Striations of Military Targeting

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
In the context of a panel I put together on “Turning Ploughshares into Swords: Weapons and Weaponizations”, the ISA’s annual conference was the occasion for me to present some of the research I…

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Foucault and Neoliberalism Today (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and Neoliberalism Today, Contriver’s Review, March 2015 Late last year, a PhD student in Belgium, Daniel Zamora, published a smallish edited collection of essays in French called “Criticising Foucault” (Critiquer…

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Workshop at UNSW on The Birth of Territory and ‘Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics’

My public lecture “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics” at University of New South Wales earlier this week was recorded by ABC Radio ‘Big Ideas‘, and I’ll hopefully be able to post the link soon. Paul Patton gave a very generous introduction … Continue reading

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Contesting the Arctic now published

I’m delighted to announce that Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North is now published. The book was something of a writing experiment for myself and co-authors. Contesting the Arctic not only seeks to understand the Arctic…

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