Monthly Archives: June 2015

Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Simon Springer and David Harvey debate Marxism, anarchism and Geography Editing Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy – doing his endnotes properly Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – tracing the people in the ‘cowboy hat’ photograph Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures … Continue reading

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Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures

Why should academics blog about their research? An answer in pictures at The Sociological Imagination. Four reasons in the full post. Thanks to Jacqueline Bartram who drew these great cartoons as I was talking at a Hull event last week … Continue reading

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Radio France Culture: Michel Foucault : Théories et institutions pénales.

Originally posted on Foucault News:
L’Essai et la revue du jour par Jacques Munier France Culture, 9 June 2015 Audio Michel Foucault : Théories et institutions pénales. Cours au Collège de France 1971-1972 (EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil) « C’est un document exceptionnel »…

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Marcelo Hoffman reviews Foucault’s La société punitive in Political Theory (subscription required)

Now up online first, Marcelo Hoffman reviews Foucault’s La société punitive in Political Theory (subscription required).

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Editing Henri Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy – doing his endnotes properly

Over the last few weeks I’ve been editing the translation of Lefebvre’s Metaphilosophy for Verso. Despite a very fine translation by David Fernbach, this has still taken some work. First there are the linguistic complications of a three-way language dialogue – … Continue reading

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Étienne Balibar, Citizenship – now out with Polity

Étienne Balibar, Citizenship – now out with Polity. If fundamental political categories were represented as geometric shapes, citizenship would be one of those rotating polyhedrons with reflective surfaces that together create effects of light and shade. With extraordinarily acute discernment, … Continue reading

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Inequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty – video recordings available

Via The Sociological Imagination – video recordings of an LSE event in May 2015 – Inequality in The 21st Century: A Day Long Engagement with Thomas Piketty. Speakers include: Professor Sir Tony Atkinson, Professor Wendy Carlin,  Professor Sir John Hills, Professor Naila Kabeer, Professor Thomas Piketty, Professor Stephanie … Continue reading

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Foucault’s 1983 seminar at Berkeley – tracing the people in the ‘cowboy hat’ photograph

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
In Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault, there is a picture of Foucault in a cowboy hat, together with Paul Rabinow and some students at Berkeley. The hat was a gift from the students. This group…

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Simon Springer and David Harvey debate Marxism, anarchism and Geography

Simon Springer – “Why a radical geography must be anarchist“, Dialogues in Human Geography 4: 249-270 (needs subscription or available at academia.edu) David Harvey – “Listen, Anarchist!” A personal response to Simon Springer’s “Why a radical geography must be anarchist” website or pdf … Continue reading

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Aleppo and ISIS’s State Ambitions: World Heritage on the Territorial Horizon (June 10, 2015)

Originally posted on Terri-Stories:
As others have noted, perhaps the most striking thing about the rise of ISIS (aka the Islamic State) is that it is fundamentally motivated by territorial, rather than merely terrorist ambitions. While Islamist groups such as…

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