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Funded Postgraduate Research Studentship at Queen’s University Belfast

School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast Funded Postgraduate Research Studentship: From London to Rio: the Politics of the Olympic Games (2013 Entry) The School has been awarded a PhD studentship to work with Dr. Debbie Lisle … Continue reading →

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US drone war in Pakistan infographic

At his ever interesting Informed Comment, Juan Cole discusses the new project Out of Sight, Out of Mind. The project, Out of Sight, Out of Mind, aims to capture the scale and human cost of the drone war in Pakistan … Continue reading →

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Two new reviews at the Society and space open site.

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The Birth of Territory – University of Chicago Press page and preorder

The University of Chicago Press page for my book The Birth of Territory is now up with the description, an endorsement from John Agnew, and the table of contents. It will be available in cloth and paperback simultaneously. The paperback is $30, which … Continue reading →

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Two PhD studentships on ‘Political Spaces’ at Warwick

As part of my move to Warwick, two PhD studentships are available to work with me and colleagues in the broad area of Political Spaces. Closing date is end of May 2013. Full details here, but below are the headlines … Continue reading →

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Books received

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David Harvey “The Contradictions of Capital” – Pratt Institute Lecture

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, February 26th, 2013 – “The Contradictions of Capital“.

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Angharad Closs Stephens – The Persistance of Nationalism

My colleague Angharad Closs Stephens’s book The Persistence of Nationalism: From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters has just been published by the Routledge Interventions series. From the back cover: This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting … Continue reading →

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Call for Contributors to Critical Animal Geographies edited volume

Reposted from crit-geog-forum: Fifteen years after the publication of the groundbreaking Animal Geographies (Wolch & Emel 1998), followed by Animal Spaces, Beastly Places (Philo & Wilbert 2000), a growing number of geographers now readily acknowledge the nonhuman animal as an … Continue reading →

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Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
If I had eight hours, I’d watch all of these videos posted at the site of The Center for Place Culture and Politics: Part 1: Opening Keynote (David Harvey) and Urban Uprisings of the 1960s: Living Legacies…

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