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Arctic seabed claims and the politics of mapping

Following up on my recent blogpost on Russia’s Arctic seabed mapping, The Conversation has published a companion piece on some of the politics surrounding the map, its drawing, and its reception. The Conversation article integrates analysis of some of the…

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13 new papers and a video abstract – “The Necessity of Dialectical Naturalism: Marcuse, Bookchin, and Dialectics in the Midst of Ecological Crises”

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
It’s not quite the middle of August and the September issue of Antipode is out now! Antipode 47(4) really showcases critical geography at its very best: timely topics, engaged research, engaging writing… We open with Christian Parenti’s…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Foucault: The Birth of Power update 1 – initial work and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Cycling in Provence, including Mont Ventoux Raul Pacheco-Vega on academic writing, and breaking with usual practices Online resources to help students summarize journal articles … Continue reading

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Audio recording of talk on terrain and territory from AAG 2015

The audio recording of my 22 April 2015 AAG talk on ‘The Geophysics of Territory’ is available here (18 minutes). This was in sessions co-organised with Gastón Gordillo; Derek Gregory and Setha Low acted as discussants. The talk ranges across quite … Continue reading

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Online resources to help students summarize journal articles and write critical reviews

Online resources to help students summarize journal articles and write critical reviews – some useful resources at Raul Pacheco-Vega’s blog. The courses I teach tend to be very practical and applied. My teaching philosophy is founded on helping my students acquire employable … Continue reading

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Society and Space early online articles and archives – all currently open access

A host of new papers available online, all currently open access.

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Notes toward a critical history of cartography, part 2

Originally posted on Open Geography:
The Map Room at the British Library Over the last couple of months I have been visiting various archives to access some great material relevant to the “Critical History.” In June I visited the Library…

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The Funambulist magazine – launch issue and subscription details

The Funambulist magazine – the new venture from Léopold Lambert to sit alongside his Funambulist blog and  Archipelago podcast – was launched this week. Léopold kindly gave me a copy when I saw him in Paris earlier this month. The first issue is on the … Continue reading

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The Founding of a Politics Department Politics at the University of Warwick – Wyn Grant (open access pdf)

The Founding of a Politics Department Politics at the University of Warwick – Wyn Grant The booklet is an account of the development of the Department of Politics and International Studies at Warwick from the opening of the University in … Continue reading

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Craig Dionne, Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene – forthcoming from Punctum

Craig Dionne, Posthuman Lear: Reading Shakespeare in the Anthropocene – forthcoming from Punctum later this year. Part scholarship, part journalism, part ecological screed, this book may read like a mashup of critical perspectives. Like other current investigations into the ecological … Continue reading

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