Monthly Archives: August 2015

Society and Space Vol 33 No 3 now out – this issue and selected back issues currently open access

From the Society and Space open site – This is the first Society and Space issue with new publisher, SAGE. All contents are currently open access as part of a free trial period. Situated solidarities and the practice of scholar-activism 391-407 Paul Routledge and Kate … Continue reading

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Books received – Shakespeare’s history plays, ‘Shakespeare’? and Yacobi

Some books for the Shakespeare project, including the disputed Edward III, and Haim Yacobi’s new book, Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography, sent by the publisher on Haim’s request. I began reading Haim’s book as soon as it arrived – … Continue reading

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Ashgate acquired by Informa

Originally posted on Ashgate Publishing Blog:
ASHGATE ACQUIRED BY INFORMA (Taylor & Francis) We announce that Ashgate Publishing has been acquired by Informa, owners of the academic publishing group Taylor & Francis. Over the last 48 years Ashgate has grown…

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Pip Thornton – ‘The meaning of light: seeing and being on the battlefield’

Pip Thornton’s paper  “The meaning of light: seeing and being on the battlefield” has been published in Cultural Geographies. This paper was part of the sessions on ‘Terrain‘ Gastón Gordillo and I organised at the AAG earlier this year. Derek Gregory … Continue reading

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Raul Pacheco-Vega on academic writing, and breaking with usual practices

Raul Pacheco-Vega has several posts on his blog about academic writing. He’s long been an advocate of the model of writing every day, in his case in a carefully-scheduled block, often first thing in the morning. In these posts he … Continue reading

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7 Critical Theory books that came out in July 2015

‘7 Critical Theory books that came out in July 2015’ at critical-theory.com – Agamben, DeLanda, Kelly, Flusser, and books on Badiou, Adorno and Heidegger, Levinas and Lacan.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Political Geography Virtual Special Issue on the Politics of Migration Society and Space free access period with new publisher “Police power is emergency power, always” – profiling, state power, and drones Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and … Continue reading

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