Monthly Archives: December 2015

List of OA journals in my field – geography, political ecology, social science

Originally posted on simonbatterbury.wordpress.com:
 “Full open-access journals are housed on independent or University affiliated websites, freely available to everyone in the world within an internet connection, and provide a free anonymous peer-review service for contributors.” Nathan Coombs here Academics…

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CFP “The Politics of Paper in the Early Modern World”, Groningen, 9-10 June 2016

Call for Papers “The Politics of Paper in the Early Modern World” Groningen, The Netherlands, 9-10 June 2016. Full details here. Paper is today so ubiquitous that we often overlook it. Yet paper was once a brand-new communications technology and … Continue reading

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Up to 20 Funded PhD Studentships in Politics and International Studies at University of Warwick

Up to 20 Funded PhD Studentships in Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at University of Warwick – deadlines in January 2016. Full details here. Applications are invited for up to 20 funded PhD studentships in Politics and International Studies (PAIS) … Continue reading

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Graduated Open Access @punctum Books

Graduated Open Access at Punctum Books – press release. First two paragraphs below. Today punctum launches a new platform for distributing our titles, which we are calling (for lack of a more elegant phrasing) Graduated Open Access. By way of … Continue reading

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Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Cisney and Morar

A new collection now out – Biopower: Foucault and Beyond – edited by Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar. Contains essays by Revel, Negri, Patton, Mills, Hacking, Mendieta, Stoler, Rabinow, Rose, Esposito… Michel Foucault’s notion of “biopower” has been a … Continue reading

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Books received – Shakespeare, Sperlinger, Zurn and Dilts

A couple of volumes of the Penguin Shakespeare series, Tom Sperlinger’s Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupation, and Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts’s collection Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition. I provided an endorsement of Active … Continue reading

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Commentary by Sue Ruddick: Reading and writing in a materialist way

Sue Ruddick commentary at the Society and Space open site on reading theory and using secondary literature.

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Review essay on Foucault’s The Punitive Society published at Historical Materialism

My review essay on Foucault’s La société punitive (now translated as The Punitive Society) has been published at Historical Materialism. The article requires subscription, but a preprint is here.

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Hegel and The Birth of Theory discussed at PMLA

From the University of Chicago Press blog: The recently published May 2015 issue of PMLA included a special feature in its “Theories and Methodologies” section devoted to a number of wide-ranging commentaries by contemporary scholars on Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory. Cole’s book—readily endorsed … Continue reading

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Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies – available to pre-order

Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies – available to pre-order. Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, … Continue reading

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