Category Archives: Neil Smith

Social Justice and the City – CFP for Hong Kong Conference

Posted on April 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for Papers: An International Conference on Social Justice and the City Organised by Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, on 4th – 6th December, 2013 at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong In Memory of Neil Smith, Who Had Devoted … Continue reading →

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The AAG meeting

Posted on April 13, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve spent the last week in Los Angeles for the Association of American Geographers annual meeting. It was mainly in the Westin Bonaventure hotel – made famous in the 1980s by the readings of Fredric Jameson and Edward Soja. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Events, Fredric Jameson, Neil Smith, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Publishing, Society and Space, Territory, Travel | 1 Comment

Gaston Gordillo – The Destruction of Space

Posted on November 7, 2012 by stuartelden

At Space and Politics, Gaston Gordillo has posted a fascinating excerpt from his forthcoming book The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space. Here’s the opening paragraph: The violent destruction of the void of the Gran Chaco by the state … Continue reading →

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Neil Smith – “There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster”

Posted on October 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Written in 2006, as a response to Hurricane Katrina, Neil Smith’s piece “There’s No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster” has lost none of its importance.

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Neil Smith Obituary in The Guardian

Posted on October 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Don Mitchell’s obituary of Neil Smith has just been published by The Guardian.

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Neil Smith’s Revolutionary Imperative

Posted on October 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Short piece on Neil Smith at rabble.ca – picking up on a piece Neil published in Antipode entitled “The Revolutionary Imperative“.  

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Verso and Tom Slater on Neil Smith

Posted on October 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Two more pieces – from Verso and Tom Slater.

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More links on Neil Smith

Posted on October 4, 2012 by stuartelden

The Graduate Center at CUNY has gathered up some links to tributes to Neil Smith, along with pieces of his work being made available online. There is also a very nice tribute from Tim Cresswell at the Landscape Surgery blog, … Continue reading →

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Peter Sigrist ‘In Memory of Neil Smith’

Posted on October 1, 2012 by stuartelden

At Polis.

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Neil Smith as lecturer, and singing the Socialist ABC

Posted on September 30, 2012 by stuartelden

There are lots of clips of Neil as lecturer online [more here], such as his AAG lecture for Progress in Human Geography in 2011: This one – posted by James Sidaway on the CUNY site, and also sent to me … Continue reading →

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