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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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Eric Hobsbawm’s Introduction to the 2012 Edition of Marx & Engels ‘The Communist Manifesto’

Posted on October 4, 2012 by stuartelden

Verso have made the text of Eric Hobsbawm’s Introduction to the 2012 Edition of Marx & Engels’s The Communist Manifesto available on their blog.

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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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Eric Hobsbawm interviewed by Simon Schama

Posted on October 3, 2012 by stuartelden

On BBC radio – available to listen for a few days. Via History Workshop.  

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Peter Sigrist ‘In Memory of Neil Smith’

Posted on October 1, 2012 by stuartelden

At Polis.

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Kant – Natural Science now out

Posted on October 1, 2012 by stuartelden

Just received my copy of Kant’s Natural Science – includes the first full English translation of the Physical Geography lectures, albeit in the corrupt Rink edition. I am due to write a review of this, and will be speaking about … Continue reading →

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Eric Hobsbawm

Posted on October 1, 2012 by stuartelden

The Guardian has the news of the death of Eric Hobsbawm, at the age of 95. The obituary is here. His three books on the long nineteenth-century – The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital and The Age of Empire … Continue reading →

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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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Tributes to Neil Smith

Posted on September 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Many tributes to Neil Smith are appearing. There are several in the comments to the CUNY Graduate Center page, including from Trevor Barnes, John Agnew, Allen Scott, Sue Ruddick, Simon Dalby, Dick Peet, Ron Johnston, James Sidaway… too many to … Continue reading →

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Neil Smith, 1954-2012

Posted on September 29, 2012 by stuartelden

The Graduate Center at CUNY has the tragic news of the death early this morning of Neil Smith. Neil was a terrific scholar, incisive, creative and supportive, making several fundamental contributions to Geography and having a reach far beyond that … Continue reading →

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