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The Drone Papers – leaked material at The Intercept

Derek Gregory and Jeremy Crampton both link to the Drone Papers at the Intercept, a new set of leaked materials. Here’s the beginning of Jeremy Scahill’s introduction. Drones are a tool, not a policy. The policy is assassination. While every president since … Continue reading

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Eduardo Gudynas, David Harvey, Ecuador and ‘sympathetic colonialism’ – links to Spanish/English versions of both texts

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Eduardo Gudynas has recently criticised David Harvey and his research team in Ecuador for ‘simpatico [sympathetic, nice or friendly] colonialism’ (Spanish/English). The research team (Estefanía Martínez, Verónica Morales, Carla Simbaña, Japhy Wilson, Nora Fernández, Thomas…

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GeoHumanities – AAG’s new journal launches

GeoHumanities, the AAG’s new journal, is now online. Papers from the editors, Jeff Malpas, Michael Dear, Hayden Lorimer, Anja Kanngieser, Luiza Bialasiewicz & Lauren Wagner and others…

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Politics and Animals – new journal launched with papers open access

Politics and Animals – new journal launched with papers open access Politics and Animals: Editors’ Introduction The Political Turn in Animal Rights Tony Milligan The Meaning of the Great Ape Project Paola Cavalieri Politico-Moral Apathy and Omnivore’s Akrasia: Views from … Continue reading

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Thanos Zartaloudis – 14½ Truths Modestly Addressed to a Young Academic

Thanos Zartaloudis – 14½ Truths Modestly Addressed to a Young Academic at Critical Legal Thinking. Lots of good advice here, much of which I wish I’d been told much earlier, much still to ponder…

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Waldheim | Landscape as Urbanism

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
Charles Waldheim presents his book Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory (Princeton University Press, forthcoming) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The talk includes an interesting discussion about the discursive constitution of disciplines. Waldheim draws…

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Eduardo Gudynas, David Harvey, Ecuador and ‘sympathetic colonialism’ – links to Spanish/English versions of both texts

Eduardo Gudynas has recently criticised David Harvey and his research team in Ecuador for ‘simpatico [sympathetic, nice or friendly] colonialism’ (Spanish/English). The research team (Estefanía Martínez, Verónica Morales, Carla Simbaña, Japhy Wilson, Nora Fernández, Thomas Purcell and Jeremy Rayner) respond (Spanish/English); … Continue reading

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Daniel Defert interview in German – History of Sexuality IV, Les aveux de la chair, will be published

There is an interview with Daniel Defert in German here, in which he discusses Foucault’s life and work, Adorno, May 68 and political activism, the AIDES group he founded after his death, the lecture courses and the material sold to … Continue reading

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Mark Carrigan, Social Media for Academics (Sage, 2016) – now available to pre-order

Mark Carrigan’s book, Social Media for Academics, is now available to pre-order. Social media is an increasingly important part of academic life that can be a fantastic medium for promoting your work, networking with colleagues and for demonstrating impact. However, alongside … Continue reading

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Virtual roundtable discussion, and free Antipode papers, on “Migration and the Refugee Crisis”

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Antipode’s publisher, Wiley, runs a great philosophy blog – The Philosopher’s Eye. This Friday, 16 October, they will be hosting what they’re calling a “virtual roundtable discussion” on migration and the refugee crisis. On the panel…

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