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Three interesting pieces on the police and New York City

Posted on January 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Jonathan Simon, “Do we really need the police? Not as much as we need air“, at Governing Through Crime Peter Gratton, “Cuomo, Koch, New York“, Philosophy in a Time of Error “Philosophy of Police Violence and Mass Incarceration“, Daily Nous … Continue reading →

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Ulrich Beck (1944-2015) and obituary in German

Posted on January 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Ulrich Beck died two days ago – obituary in German here. Beck was professor of sociology at Munich and the LSE, and writer on risk society, cosmopolitanism and globalisation. Thanks to Roland Bleiker for the link to the German obituary.

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The granularity of cities

Posted on January 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
These superimposed maps of Cleveland now and then are easily used. (University of Oklahoma) The University of Oklahoma’s Institute for Quality Communities has developed a website that offers superimposed maps of major American…

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Judith Butler. Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. 2014

Posted on January 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmoguMXPxCI Judith Butler. Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. 2014 Published on 1 Jan 2015 http://www.egs.edu Judith Butler, philosopher and author, speaking about avowal and disavowal in conversation with Michel Foucault’s Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling in which Foucault attempts to establish…

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Pierre Bourdieu, On the State – forthcoming from Polity

Posted on January 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Pierre Bourdieu, On the State, three years worth of lectures at the Collège de France, is  forthcoming from Polity. I’ve never really got into Bourdieu’s work, so this might be a good opportunity – the blurb follows, but the detailed table of … Continue reading →

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How to get published in an academic journal: top tips from editors

Posted on January 3, 2015 by stuartelden

The Guardian has a good piece on ‘How to get published in an academic journal: top tips from editors‘. There are also pieces on overcoming writer’s block and other topics.

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Another Liberty Canon: Foucault

Posted on January 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Notes On Liberty:
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French writer on various but related topics of power, knowledge, discourse, history of thought, ethics, politics, and so on. His name to some summons negative associations of French intellectual…

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‘Law, Space and the Political’, University of Wrocław, Poland, 3-5 September 2015

Posted on January 2, 2015 by stuartelden

‘Law, Space and the Political‘, University of Wrocław, Poland, 3-5 September 2015: The choice of this year’s theme – ‘Law, Space and the Political’ – is a concious move aimed at linking the troubled history of our region of Europe … Continue reading →

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Foucault on the State in 1975 – a previously untranslated comment

Posted on January 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault was interviewed in 1975 for a Brazilian paper: Q: In your work, the State seems to occupy a privileged place. And the State represents a privileged instance for understanding historical-cultural formations. Could you specify the conditions of possibility which … Continue reading →

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RGS-IBG CfP: Under the Sea: Geographies of the deep

Posted on January 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Interesting call for papers for the next RGS-IBG conference, building on some ideas discussed at the Warwick political geography conference last year.

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