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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

The Political Geographies of FIFA and World Cup football Ben Anderson, Encountering Affect: Capacities, Apparatuses, Conditions – first chapter online Graham Harman’s Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political due out in October Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – new book series edited … Continue reading

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Laruelle Bibliography (English & French)

This looks a really helpful resource for anyone interested in Laruelle. Thanks to Michael O’Rourke for the alert.

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Atlas of Inuit Arctic Trails

An interesting new project on mapping the Arctic.

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To Pass On a Good Earth: The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer

To Pass On a Good Earth: The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer – Michael Williams with David Lowenthal and William M. Denevan, recently published by University of Virgina Press. To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling … Continue reading

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The Accidental Playground reviewed

New review at the Society and Space open site

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Barry Stocker on Foucault’s Lectures on Subjectivity and Truth

The second part of lecture 2; the first part of lecture 3 and the second part.

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The Political Geographies of FIFA and World Cup football

Interesting piece at Political Geography Now on the political geographies of FIFA and World Cup football – who is allowed to compete, in which region, and how do these teams match-up with recognised states.  

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Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – new book series edited by Jason Dittmer and Ian Klinke

Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds – Rowman International  Series edited by Jason Dittmer and Ian Klinke This series publishes studies that originate in a range of different fields that are nonetheless linked through their common foundation: a belief that the macro-scale of geopolitics … Continue reading

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Graham Harman’s Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political due out in October

Graham Harman’s new book Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political is due out in October. Details in the Pluto catalogue (via his blog).

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Intervention – ‘Merkel’s Geography: Maps and Territory in China’

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
by Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick Maps are vital for the geographic imaginary of the state. They are, as David Harvey (2001) and others (see, for example, Crampton and Elden 2007; Elden 2013) remind us,…

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