Category Archives: People

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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‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’

Posted on September 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Verso have posted another one their lists – this time ‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’. Twenty books here including Marx, Paul Mason, Peter Dews, Jameson, Anderson (Perry & Benedict), Stephen Lukes, Žižek, Eagleton, David Harvey, Therborn, Balibar, Vinayak Chaturvedi, … Continue reading →

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Gaston Gordillo, The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space

Posted on September 28, 2012 by stuartelden

At Space and Politics, Gaston Gordillo has a detailed discussion of his forthcoming book The Afterlife of Places: Ruins and the Destruction of Space. It looks to be both theoretically innovative and based on detailed fieldwork. He promises some more theoretical … Continue reading →

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Ben Fraser – Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre, Space and the Culture(s) of Cities

Posted on September 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Ben Fraser – “Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre, Space and the Culture(s) of Cities” from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo. For the Prezi, and more details see the Urban Cultural Studies blog Ben runs. And his book … Continue reading →

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Foucault Studies 14 – including an unpublished Foucault interview

Posted on September 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Foucault Studies 14 is now out. The bulk of the issue is a theme section on Foucault and Queer Theory, but the highlight is a 1978 interview with Foucault conducted by Colin Gordon and Paul Patton, and introduced by Alain Beaulieu … Continue reading →

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Heterotopian Studies – now with blog

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The Heterotopian Studies site I mentioned a few months back has a blog attached to it – http://www.heterotopiastudies.com/blog/ It is extraordinary how this short piece by Foucault, which was not published for almost twenty years, has generated so much interest and … Continue reading →

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Right to the City

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stuartelden

New book on the right to the city, in Italian and English, with contributions by by Francesca Iovino, Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, Mark Purcell, Kolektyw Syrena, Marco Deseriis, and Jodi Dean. I got the link from Mark Purcell at Path … Continue reading →

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