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Research Associate post at Durham’s IBRU: Centre for Borders Research

Durham University seeks to employ a full-time Research Associate to contribute to the work of IBRU, an interdisciplinary training and academic research entity based in Durham University’s Department of Geography. This is a fixed-term appointment which will terminate no later … Continue reading

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The Biopolitics of Gender (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Jemima Repo (2015) The Biopolitics of Gender. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press Introduces a new theoretical and methodological approach to gender Conducts a genealogy of gender similar to Foucault’s mid-twentieth century genealogy of…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Remembering Edward Soja (1940-2015) (see also Derek Gregory’s tribute) Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 8 Critical Theory books that came out in October – Golder, Adorno and Lenk, Nealon, King, Withers, Coombs, Barthes, Holub Pierre Macherey, ‘The Productive … Continue reading

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The Martian, Matt Damon, and Outer Space Law

A bit belatedly, after getting a number of ‘Does Matt Damon know what he’s talking about?’ emails, I finally got to see The Martian last night. Since it’s not fair that Klaus Dodds and Rachael Squire get to have all…

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Review forum of Jenna Loyd’s 2014 Health Rights Are Civil Rights

Review forum of Jenna Loyd’s 2014 Health Rights Are Civil Rights at the Society and Space open site

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Everything you always wanted to know about territory, but were afraid to ask Shakespeare – talk to Cambridge University Geographical Society, 25 November 2015

I’ll be giving the talk I gave at Warwick on Shakespeare’s King John again on the 23rd November at UCL at 6pm (abstract and details here). Then two days later I’ll be giving a talk to the Cambridge University Geography Society, at … Continue reading

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Journal of Historical Geography review forum on The Birth of Territory published (Legg, Heffernan, McDonagh, Cohen, Sassen, Elden)

The review forum on The Birth of Territory in Journal of Historical Geography is now published. Reviews by Stephen Legg, Michael Heffernan, Briony McDonagh, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Saskia Sassen, and a response by me. The full article requires subscription, but there is a preprint … Continue reading

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Territory — Rene Magritte

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
How did I not know there was a painting by Magritte called ‘Le territoire’ until now? Biblioklept View original post

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Foucault Circle meeting at UNSW June 29-July 2, 2016 – call for papers

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The sixteenth annual meeting of the Foucault Circle will be held in Sydney, Australia, June 29-July 2, 2016 (hosted by the University of New South Wales). The Foucault Circle at UNSW will be held immediately before…

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René Girard – tribute from the Stanford news service

The theorist and historian René Girard died yesterday. There is a good obituary which discusses his important work at the Stanford news service. Thanks to Robert Tally for the first alert to this story. Update: also a brief piece at the Stanford … Continue reading

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