Monthly Archives: April 2019

Sara Fregonese, War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon – IB Tauris, September 2019

Sara Fregonese, War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon, IB Tauris, September 2019, afterword by Klaus Dodds

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Keith Jacobs, Neoliberal Housing Policy: An International Perspective – Routledge, May 2019

Keith Jacobs, Neoliberal Housing Policy: An International Perspective – Routledge, May 2019 Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role … Continue reading

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Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare symposium, Saturday April 6, 2019, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton

Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare symposium Saturday April 6, 2019, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton David Garrick built his Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames at Hampton in 1755 as a place where ‘the thinkers of the world’ would meet to reflect on … Continue reading

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Andrew W. Neil, Security as Politics: Beyond the State of Exception – Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Andrew W. Neil, Security as Politics: Beyond the State of Exception – Edinburgh University Press, 2019 Uses the perspective of parliamentarians to reassess the relationship between security and politics Andrew W. Neal argues that while ‘security’ was once an anti-political … Continue reading

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Rosi Braidotti, Posthuman Knowledge – Polity, June 2019

Rosi Braidotti, Posthuman Knowledge – Polity, June 2019 The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have … Continue reading

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