Category Archives: People

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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‘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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