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Spatial Justice Collection – essays open access until end 2015

Spatial Justice Collection – essays open access until end 2015. Thanks to dmf for the link. Explore this year’s ACSP conference  theme of ‘Justice in the City’ with the below article collection – over 60 free papers which explore the themes of spatial … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s 1982 lectures in Toronto and Kingston – were you there? A request for help

In June 1982 Foucault gave a sequence of lectures in Toronto. At the end of June he gave a guest lecture at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, adapting one of the Toronto lectures for that audience. These lectures are being prepared … Continue reading →

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CFP: Radicalism in Theory and Practice – Hong Kong, 6-8 December 2016

CFP: Radicalism in Theory and Practice – Hong Kong, 6-8 December 2016: Call for Papers. Posted on behalf of Wing-Shing Tang For the 8th Meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG) Radicalism in Theory and Practice This is … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Foucault on Writing; Making Time for Writing Theory, Culture & Society E-Special Issue: Fiction & Social Theory – edited by David Beer Causes of deaths in Shakespeare’s plays visualised Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 9 – restructuring the drafts of Chapters Four … Continue reading →

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Foucault books received – including his first book Maladie mentale et personnalité

And these are the recent Foucault project books received – all bought second-hand. Most of these connect in some way to the work of the Groupe Information Asiles or Groupe Information santé, with the exception of a copy of the original … Continue reading →

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Books received – Cockburn, Benjamin, Agamben, Skornicki, GeoHumanities

Some recent books – Patrick Cockburn’s The Rise of Islamic State and Walter Benjamin’s The Origins of German Tragic Drama, which I bought in the Verso sale; Arnault Skornicki, La grande soif de l’État. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales, which I … Continue reading →

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Annotated bibliography of Foucault’s texts on heterotopia at Heterotopian Studies

Annotated bibliography of Foucault’s texts on heterotopia at Heterotopian Studies.

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 9 – restructuring the drafts of Chapters Four and Six

Foucault: The Birth of Power is taking shape. The first half of this book is comprised of three chapters: Measure, Inquiry, Examination. These treat, in order, Lectures on the Will to Know, Théories et Institutions Pénales, and The Punitive Society, along … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture & Society E-Special Issue: Fiction & Social Theory – edited by David Beer

Theory, Culture & Society E-Special Issue: Fiction & Social Theory – edited by David Beer This special issue brings together a range of articles from the Theory, Culture & Society archive that directly explore the relations between fiction and social … Continue reading →

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Shiloh Krupar, ‘Operational Banality: medical geographies of administration and the biopolitical grotesque’ – Neil Smith lecture video

Shiloh Krupar, ‘Operational Banality: medical geographies of administration and the biopolitical grotesque’ – second Neil Smith lecture video. Thanks to Derek Gregory for the link. Neil Smith Lecture Nov 2015 from University of St Andrews on Vimeo.

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