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Sanjay Chaturvedi, Timothy Doyle – Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change

Posted on July 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Sanjay Chaturvedi, Timothy Doyle, Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change, recently out with Palgrave. Climate Terror investigates the highly differentiated geographical politics of global warming. It explores how fear-inducing climate change discourses could result in new forms of dependencies, domination and militarized … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade Update 25 – resubmission of revised manuscript

Posted on July 13, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now back with the press, in what I hope is its final form. It is scheduled for publication in spring 2016. The first update on this book’s writing was made on July 22 2013 –almost exactly … Continue reading →

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The Metric Tide – report on higher education research and teaching assessment

Posted on July 13, 2015 by stuartelden

James Wilsdon reports on research metrics, and their wider application in higher education, in The Guardian. The full report can be downloaded here. Over the past fifteen months, I’ve been chairing an independent review of the role of metrics in the research … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

“Let UK universities do what they do best – teaching and research” – Letter from 121 professors in The Guardian David Harvey, Wendy Brown, Étienne Balibar discuss neoliberalism, capitalism and Marx Jeffrey Jerome Cohen on ‘Creativity, Routine, Writing Lockdowns, and the Necessity … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Crampton on maps, permissions and Asterix

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Slow linking to these, but Jeremy Crampton has two follow-up posts to my earlier sharing of Mary Beard’s interesting piece on the last stages of writing a book – SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. In the first he talks about maps … Continue reading →

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Two Summer Schools about Geopolitics at Maastricht University

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Two Summer Schools about Geopolitics at Maastricht University organised by Leonhardt van Efferink: 3 – 7 August 2015 – Geopolitical Analysis 1: Rethinking Nation-States, National Security and Global Power 10 – 14 August 2015 Geopolitical Analysis 2: Exploring Geopolitics, Geoeconomics … Continue reading →

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Universities and space

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Refracted Input:
An example of the kind of building which is currently being constructed by universities in Australia. Interestingly, in this rendering, nobody actually seems to be doing any real work. And unless I missed it, there…

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Times Higher Education on William Cronon’s British Academy lecture – ‘ Who reads Geography or History anymore?’

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

The Times Higher Education has a report on William Cronon’s British Academy lecture, Royal Geographical Society, London, on 7 July 2015 – ‘ Who reads Geography or History anymore?‘

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Mark Blyth, ‘A Pain in the Athens: Why Greece isn’t to Blame for the Crisis’ in Foreign Affairs

Posted on July 12, 2015 by stuartelden

Mark Blyth, ‘A Pain in the Athens: Why Greece isn’t to Blame for the Crisis‘ in Foreign Affairs.

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Books received – Shakespeare, Shakespeare… and one by Foucault

Posted on July 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Books received – Shakespeare, Shakespeare… and one by Foucault. The Foucault is the ninth edition, but I don’t think is any different from the second – which he produced in 1972, though that has major changes from the 1963 version. With … Continue reading →

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