Monthly Archives: April 2015

Top posts this week on Progressive Geographies

Posted on April 19, 2015 by stuartelden

Terry Eagleton, The Slow Death of the University Jacques Derrida’s early essay on Shakespeare’s idea of Kingship – ‘Quite unintelligible’ Articles and Chapters Foucault’s Last Decade Mapping the Age of Every Building in Manhattan Where to start with reading Peter … Continue reading →

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Association of American Geographers conference in Chicago – Ebola, Terrain and Lauren Berlant’s Society and Space lectures

Posted on April 19, 2015 by stuartelden

You’ll have to get up early to see me present at the Association of American Geographers conference in Chicago next week. Both sessions are at 8am. 21 April 2015, “The Multiple Geographies of Ebola”, as part of a panel session on (Geo)politics … Continue reading →

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David Farrell Krell on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ – review essay and forthcoming book Ecstasy, Catastrophe

Posted on April 18, 2015 by stuartelden

David Farrell Krell on Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’ – long review essay in Research in Phenomenology and forthcoming book Ecstasy, Catastrophe: Heidegger from Being and Time to the Black Notebooks. The essay draws on chapters from the book, itself based on the 2014 … Continue reading →

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Dredging geopolitics: Moving dirt, silt and sand

Posted on April 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Klaus Dodds on some developments in the South China sea.

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Civil(ian) wars in Yemen

Posted on April 18, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
It’s not easy to keep track of the intensifying civil war/proxy war in Yemen, but the New York Times has published a series of maps – including the one below – that sketch out some…

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“Prisons, Racism, Empire, Militarism” at AAG

Posted on April 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life:
For those of us headed to AAG in Chicago next week, this mini-conference, “Prisons, Racism, Empire, Militarism,” organized by Lindsey Dillon, Javier Arbona, and Jenna Lloyd may be…

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Books received – Peck and Theodore, Mauriac, Krell, Drischler

Posted on April 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore’s Fast Policy in recompense for review work; another volume of Claude Mauriac’s memoirs for the Foucault project; David Farrell Krell’s Phantoms of the Other to review; and two papers on Leibniz sent by … Continue reading →

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Jeff Malpas, On the Reading of Heidegger – Situating the Black Notebooks

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas, “On the Reading of Heidegger – Situating the Black Notebooks” at academia.edu. This is the draft introduction to a forthcoming collection on the Notebooks, co-edited with Ingo Farin. Thanks to Enowning for the link. Peter Gratton comments at … Continue reading →

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Interview with Saskia Sassen at Figure/Ground

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

A brief interview with Saskia Sassen at Figure/Ground, mainly on teaching and changing technologies.

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Volha Piotukh, Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: ‘Caring’ for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus

Posted on April 16, 2015 by stuartelden

Volha Piotukh, Biopolitics, Governmentality and Humanitarianism: ‘Caring’ for the Population in Afghanistan and Belarus. This book critically analyses the changing role and nature of post-Cold War humanitarianism, using Foucault’s theories of biopolitics and governmentality. It offers a compelling and insightful … Continue reading →

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