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Boğaziçi Chronicles, Interview with Michael Hardt: Empire, Sovereignty and New Struggles

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
A new portion of an interview with Hardt is up at the Boğaziçi Chronicles site. The full interview (pdf) is here.

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Reflections on teaching the history of geography

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
I have a short piece in a forum on teaching the history of geography, organized by Innes Keighren for Progress in Human Geography. There are also contributions by Franklin Ginn, Scott Kirsch, Audrey Kobayashi, Simon Naylor and Jörn Seemann.…

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Interview with John Pickles

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Matt Wilson and I interviewed John Pickles recently about the history of critical cartography, the Friday Harbor meetings in 1993 and Brian Harley. This has now appeared in Cartographica as part of a special issue…

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Open Letter from Faculty, Emeriti and Librarians of the University of Toronto

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Open Letter from Faculty, Emeriti and Librarians of the University of Toronto on the ongoing strike action – more here and on Twitter.

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Update on University of Surrey’s Politics department under threat

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

University of Surrey’s Politics department update: There is a story in Times Higher Education but also some reports that the University is reconsidering. Facebook page ‘Save Surrey’s Politics Department‘ Twitter hashtag #savesurreypolitics petition to sign and share

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University of Surrey’s Politics department under threat

Posted on March 16, 2015 by stuartelden

University of Surrey’s Politics department is under serious threat. Apparently “the current staff of 14 lecturers/professors will be reduced to 5. The current staff have received their redundancy notices and will have to re-apply to one of the 5 positions. … Continue reading →

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“University Freiburg: Husserl and Heidegger Remain in Freiburg” – clarification

Posted on March 15, 2015 by stuartelden

The University of Freiburg has issued a clarification: “University Freiburg: Husserl and Heidegger Remain in Freiburg” (via Enowning).

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on March 15, 2015 by stuartelden

I was away for much of the week, so not that many new posts. Umberto Eco – How to Write a Thesis (MIT Press) New Series at Edinburgh: New Perspectives in Ontology Judy! – the 1993 Judith Butler fanzine available … Continue reading →

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What We Talked About At ISA: Weaponising Geography and the Global Striations of Military Targeting

Posted on March 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
In the context of a panel I put together on “Turning Ploughshares into Swords: Weapons and Weaponizations”, the ISA’s annual conference was the occasion for me to present some of the research I…

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Foucault and Neoliberalism Today (2015)

Posted on March 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mark G. E. Kelly, Foucault and Neoliberalism Today, Contriver’s Review, March 2015 Late last year, a PhD student in Belgium, Daniel Zamora, published a smallish edited collection of essays in French called “Criticising Foucault” (Critiquer…

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