Category Archives: Derek Gregory

Air-Target and the Politics of Verticality

Some very interesting looking pieces in a recent issue of Theory, Culture and Society – thanks to Oliver Belcher for the link. Will be good reading for my ‘volume’ work. Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead, and Alison J. Williams, “Introduction: Air-target: Distance, … Continue reading

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Sevilla Buitrago, Gregory, Elden interview – open access in Spanish and English

The English version of the interview in Acme has been available for a while – and like all material in that journal is open access. Now the Spanish translation – which appeared earlier this year in Revista Urban – is … Continue reading

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Secure the Volume abstract

This is the abstract for the Kentucky Committee for Social Theory lecture (late March) and the Political Geography plenary lecture at the RGS-IBG conference in Edinburgh (early July). Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power We all-too-often … Continue reading

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Elden, Gregory, Sevilla-Buitrago in ACME

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Vol 10 No 2 is now available. It includes the English version of a discussion between me, Derek Gregory and Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago that was originally published earlier this year in a Spanish translation: … Continue reading

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Derek Gregory – ‘Lines of Descent’

Derek Gregory’s ‘Lines of Descent’ essay is available at Open Democracy. There are a number of other papers linked to this weekend’s ‘Shock and Awe’ conference here.

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Shock and Awe conference

To be held in London in just over a week – details here. Derek Gregory is the closing speaker and you can find a shorter version of some of his arguments on this topic at Open Democracy.

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Human Geography – Fundamentals of Geography

I’ve mentioned this before, but there is now a pdf advertising this new major reference work, edited by Derek Gregory and Noel Castree, that gathers together 85 previously published pieces across the breadth of human geography. While the price means it … Continue reading

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Society and Space – writing its history

I’ve been spending the last several days writing the introduction to the volume of Society and Space papers for the Sage Environment and Planning collection. It’s been fascinating to go over the journal’s back issues, yet again, and trace the … Continue reading

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Espacios del pasado, historias del presente

Just gone over the first version of the proofs of “Espacios del pasado, historias del presente: en torno a los rastros de la historia espacial [Spaces of the past, histories of the present: debating the traces of spatial history]”, which … Continue reading

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2011 publications preview

2011 should see both the Kant and Sloterdijk edited books out, in June and November respectively. In addition the Environment and Planning collection (five volumes) with Sage should be out late in the year. I have chapters in these books … Continue reading

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