Monthly Archives: August 2015

The Funambulist magazine – launch issue and subscription details

Posted on August 14, 2015 by stuartelden

The Funambulist magazine – the new venture from Léopold Lambert to sit alongside his Funambulist blog and  Archipelago podcast – was launched this week. Léopold kindly gave me a copy when I saw him in Paris earlier this month. The first issue is on the … Continue reading →

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The Founding of a Politics Department Politics at the University of Warwick – Wyn Grant (open access pdf)

Posted on August 14, 2015 by stuartelden

The Founding of a Politics Department Politics at the University of Warwick – Wyn Grant The booklet is an account of the development of the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick from the opening of the University in … Continue reading →

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Craig Dionne, Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene – forthcoming from Punctum

Posted on August 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Craig Dionne, Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene – forthcoming from Punctum later this year. Part scholarship, part journalism, part ecological screed, this book may read like a mashup of critical perspectives. Like other current investigations into the ecological … Continue reading →

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Cycling in Provence, including Mont Ventoux

Posted on August 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Two years ago I posted about a cycling holiday in Provence, and I’ve just been back for four days. This time Susan and I went together, and she did a series of long hikes while I did some long rides … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power update 1 – initial work and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Posted on August 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now in production. Over the past couple of weeks I have turned in earnest to the book on the earlier period, entitled Foucault: The Birth of Power. The initial work on this book was taking all … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on August 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Raul Pacheco-Vega on academic writing, and breaking with usual practices 7 Critical Theory books that came out in July 2015 Ian Hacking’s Collège de France courses online Michel Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984): 13 Years at the Collège, 13 Seminars at Columbia Ashgate … Continue reading →

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‘The worst piece of peer review I’ve ever received’ – stories in the Times Higher Education

Posted on August 9, 2015 by stuartelden

‘The worst piece of peer review I’ve ever received‘ – stories in the Times Higher Education.

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Gastón Gordillo on The Insurgent Underground

Posted on August 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Very interesting piece by Gastón Gordillo on his Space and Politics blog – The Insurgent Underground.

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Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory and Laura Suarsana (eds.) Geographies of Knowledge and Power

Posted on August 8, 2015 by stuartelden

An interesting-looking, but again expensive, collection: Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory and Laura Suarsana (eds.) Geographies of Knowledge and Power. Interest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated in the … Continue reading →

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Native Land

Posted on August 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life:
Native Land is a project that maps indigenous territory in Canada. Visitors can input a Canadian address and the site displays the indigenous land occupied as well as…

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