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Schindel and Colombo (eds.) Space and the Memories of Violence

This looks an interesting collection – Estela Schindel and Pamela Colombo (eds.), Space and the Memories of Violence: Landscapes of Erasure, Disappearance and Exception. The final chapter is an interview with David Harvey. This volume offers a variety of perspectives on the relation between violence, memory … Continue reading →

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The war on Ebola

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
We’ve been here before – ‘wars’ on this and ‘wars’ on that.  It’s strange how reluctant states are to admit that their use of military violence (especially when it doesn’t involve ‘boots on the ground‘)…

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Books received – Klein on Climate Change, Skinner on Shakespeare, Lefebvre on Marx, Deleuze & Fascism

A re-edition of one of Henri Lefebvre’s books on Marx; Deleuze and Fascism, edited by Brad Evans and Julian Reid; Quentin Skinner’s Forensic Shakespeare; Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything; and the new issues of RIPE and TCS.

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography – call for papers

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
A reminder of this conference coming up at Warwick, with a call for papers. Please spread the word in your institutions to potentially interested participants.Please consider submitting a paper for the next Warwick Graduate Conference in…

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Italian literary mappings: new review by Tania Rossetto

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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“Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture, Nottingham Contemporary, 12 November 2014

[Update: the video of the event is now available here.] On 12 November 2014, I’ll be giving a University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture at Nottingham Contemporary gallery. The title is “Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, and I’ll be … Continue reading →

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Convulsing Bodies. Religion and Resistance in Foucault (2014)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mark D. Jordan, Convulsing Bodies. Religion and Resistance in Foucault, Stanford University Press, October 2014 Further info By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault’s thinking, this book offers a strong…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Towards a reading list on the Ebola crisis Conflicts without borders Foucault Studies 18 now published – includes two translations of Foucault, all open access Grégoire Chamayou, ‘What is Necroethics?’, King’s College London, 29 October 2014 Earth: interactive weather conditions … Continue reading →

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Bill Martin discusses animals, Maoism, and more

Originally posted on Species and Class:
By Jon Hochschartner Bill Martin, a professor of philosophy at DePaul University, emerged from the United States’ Maoist movement and is currently working with the Kasama Project. He is the author of ‘Ethical Marxism:…

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Ron Johnston on the legacy, and last books, of Peter Hall

Professor Sir Peter Hall died in July 2014. Active as a scholar, policy analyst and future-thinker almost to the end, his most recent book – Good Cities, Better Lives – appeared earlier that year, alongside a festschrift edited by his … Continue reading →

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