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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Foucault Resources An alternative map of Africa – reimagining the continent without colonisation Call For Papers – ‘Thinking with Algorithms’, Durham, 26-27 Feb 2015 Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth’ lecture at Nottingham Contemporary The Fabric of Space: Matthew … Continue reading →

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The Fabric of Space: Matthew Gandy’s new book on water, modernity and the urban imagination

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This looks like a really interesting new title from MIT Press from Matthew Gandy. From the publisher’s website: “Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of…

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An alternative map of Africa – reimagining the continent without colonisation

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
An intriguing map of Africa, imaging how it might have looked had it not been colonised. This might be a good spur to class discussion, though one thing that should immediately be noted is that…

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“Foucault’s Risks” by Anna Shechtman, Peter Raccuglia & Susan Morrow in LA Review of Books

Editor’s note: On October 17–18, 2014, Yale University hosted a conference exploring the intellectual and political legacy of Michel Foucault. The Los Angeles Review of Books asked three Yale graduate students to respond to this conference by focusing on what … Continue reading →

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The Natures of War

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I have – at last – uploaded what I hope is the final version of ‘The Natures of War’ (DOWNLOADS tab).  It’s the long-form version of the first Neil Smith Lecture I gave at St Andrew’s…

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“The geopolitics of Boko Haram and Nigeria’s ‘war on terror’” – now published in The Geographical Journal

My paper on Boko Haram is now published in The Geographical Journal. The paper requires subscription, but if you can’t get it another way, please feel free to ask me for a copy. Here’s the abstract. The April 2014 kidnapping of … Continue reading →

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Public Funding for berfrois.com – please consider donating

I’ve now published five pieces on the http://www.berfrois.com website – the latest, with links to the others, is here. But I’m also a reader of the material they publish – very wide ranging, regularly interesting, and an important alternative to … Continue reading →

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Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth’ lecture at Nottingham Contemporary

Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth‘ lecture and the discussion following it, at Nottingham Contemporary gallery last night. The introduction is by Emma Moore, the discussion is with Colin Wright, Sophie Fuggle and Alex Vasudevan. This was a really … Continue reading →

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Peter Singer, ‘The Ethics of Fighting Ebola’

Peter Singer, ‘The Ethics of Fighting Ebola’ – also added to the long reading list here.

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The quick death of slow scholarship?

Originally posted on Landscape Surgery:
Travels into Print. First manuscript draft (February, 2013). Since joining Landscape Surgery in 2010, I have had a seemingly every-present item of business on which to offer updates during our fortnightly “newsrounds”: the progress made…

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