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Refugee movements visualised, 2000-16 [update: and its problems]

Posted on June 15, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Refugee movements visualised, 2000-16 – at mashable An interactive visualisation – perhaps a good basis for class discussion. Thanks to dmf for the link. Update: Phil Steinberg has pointed me to a 2015 post in…

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Refugee movements visualised, 2000-16 [update: and its problems]

Posted on June 14, 2017 by stuartelden

Refugee movements visualised, 2000-16 – at mashable An interactive visualisation – perhaps a good basis for class discussion. Thanks to dmf for the link. Update: Phil Steinberg has pointed me to a 2015 post in which he explored some of … Continue reading →

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Roman roads of Europe – subway-map

Posted on June 14, 2017 by stuartelden

Roman roads of Europe reimagined as a subway-map. Thanks to Jean-François Thibault for the link. For an interactive Roman route planner, see OmnesViae.

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Books received – Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Low, Amoore & Piotukh, de Bodt, TCS

Posted on June 13, 2017 by stuartelden

Some recently received books, mainly in recompense for review work, along with Saskia de Bodt’s Children of Holland and the new issue of Theory, Culture and Society on ‘Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene’.

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Interview with Wendy Brown in Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on June 10, 2017 by stuartelden

Interview with Wendy Brown in Theory, Culture & Society Redoing the Demos? An Interview with Wendy Brown Samuel Burgum, Sebastian Raza, & Jorge Vasquez The following discussion with philosopher and political scientist Wendy Brown seeks to apply her provocative and … Continue reading →

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Andrew J. Mitchell, The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger reviewed at NDPR

Posted on June 9, 2017 by stuartelden

Andrew J. Mitchell, The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger is reviewed at NDPR by Gary Aylesworth. Heidegger’s later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of what he … Continue reading →

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Books received – Gilot, Boehringer and Lorenzini, Debrix, Chimisso, Merleau-Ponty, Sloterdijk, Stratford, Johnston and Sidaway

Posted on June 8, 2017 by stuartelden

A pile of recently received books, many in recompense for review work. The Chimisso and Merleau-Ponty are for the Foucault and Canguilhem projects; but also second-hand copies of Françoise Gilot’s biography Life with Picasso, and Boehringer and Lorenzini’s collection on … Continue reading →

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Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s book Foucault in Iran

Posted on June 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Thanks to Chathan Vemuri for this news: Jadaliyya recently published a six-part symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s book Foucault in Iran. Here is part 1 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26386/foucault-and-iran Here is part 2 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26387/rescuing-the-revolution-from-its-outcome Here is part 3 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26394/foucault_against-the-ideology-of-enlightenment Here is part 4 http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/26413/foucault%E2%80%99s-folly_iran-political-spirituality-and-c … Continue reading →

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Cambridge Summer School, “The Practice of Social Theory”, 4-6 September 2017

Posted on June 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Conveners: Jana Bacevic (University of Cambridge) and Mark Carrigan (The Sociological Review) Passionate about social theory? Want to learn more about how it is created? Interested in seeing theory being made, rather than just read or applied? Apply to the … Continue reading →

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The Future of the University Press: A Forum (part open access)

Posted on June 6, 2017 by stuartelden

The Future of the University Press: A Forum in the Chronicle of Higher Education (a couple of pieces are open access; most only accessible to subscribers). We asked publishers, press directors, editors, scholars, and other insiders for their views on … Continue reading →

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