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US geography dissertations since 1888 – analysis of title words

This is interesting – analysis of the words in the title of US Geography dissertations since 1888 to track changing interests in the discipline. (Some dumb comments though, including a gratuitous swipe at a journal I know well…) Thanks to … Continue reading

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Programme for the first Governing Emergencies workshop

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Not long to go until the first Governing Emergencies workshop. We now have details of our speakers and the papers they will present. Tuesday 23rd September: Introduction to the Workshop and Network: Governing Emergencies Ben…

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Geopolitical Economy: States, Economies and the Capitalist World Order – call for papers

Call for papers on an interesting theme. See also the Society and Space virtual theme issue on Geopolitical Economy edited by Deb Cowen and me back in 2013. Geopolitical Economy: States, Economies and the Capitalist World Order Research in Political Economy, Volume 30 … Continue reading

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Danny Dorling, Inequality and the 1% – book published and short piece in The Guardian

Danny Dorling’s Inequality and the 1% has just been published by Verso. He has a short piece in The Guardian discussing some of its themes.

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Interview with Walaa Alqaisiya and Lisa Bhungalia by Mat Coleman and Mary Thomas

Interview with Walaa Alqaisiya and Lisa Bhungalia by Mat Coleman and Mary Thomas at the Society and Space open site.

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Elaine Stratford, Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms over the Life-Course

Forthcoming later this year – Elaine Stratford, Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms over the Life-Course: Adventures in the Interval. Download a flyer here. By thinking in terms of the geographies of mobilities, we are better able to understand the central importance of … Continue reading

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Most popular posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Deleuze’s transcribed lectures Tips on preparing and delivering a conference paper, and on fielding questions Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 13 The Birth of Territory – published one year ago David Harvey in conversation with Tariq Ali Books received – … Continue reading

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Gregory Fried reviews Heidegger’s Black Notebooks/Schwarze Hefte

A thoughtful review essay by Gregory Fried on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks/Schwarze Hefte Vols. 94-96 in the LA Review of Books.

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Gregynog Ideas Lab IV – International Politics residential workshop 13-18 July 2015

Initial details of the fourth Gregynog Ideas Lab, an International Politics residential workshop in Wales, have been announced for 13-18 July 2015.

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Books received – Querrien, Recherches, Gordillo, Piper, Lefebvre

Three books linked to Michel Foucault’s collaborative work with CERFI; Gastón Gordillo’s Rubble (see my interview with Gastón at societyandspace.com); Karen Piper’s The Price of Thirst; a first edition of Henri Lefebvre’s study of the Pyrenees, and the new issues of … Continue reading

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