Category Archives: Politics

Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses

Posted on October 24, 2012 by stuartelden

New journal Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses edited by a politics, IR, geography and sociology team. Resilience is a fully peer-reviewed journal that creates a platform for dialogue about the processes, spaces, policies, practices and subjectivities through which resilience … Continue reading →

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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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The AHRC and ‘the Big Society’

Posted on October 17, 2012 by stuartelden

Thom Brooks has an update on the campaign to get the AHRC to remove ‘the Big Society’  from its strategic plan – qualified good news.

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Slavoj Žižek discusses ‘The Year of Dreaming Dangerously’

Posted on October 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Radio discussion with Slavoj Žižek on CBC.

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Zizek on Authoritarian Capitalism

Posted on October 10, 2012 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek discusses who won the recession and the idea of authoritarian capitalism in Foreign Policy. Looks like an excerpt or teaser for The Year of Dreaming Dangerously.

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Research Associate post at Durham

Posted on October 5, 2012 by stuartelden

A full-time Postgraduate Research Associate for 30 months at Durham, to contribute to a research project on “Securing Against Future Events (SaFE): Preemption, Protocols, and Publics”, working with Louise Amoore.

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Thinking Urban Worlds – workshop at Durham University

Posted on October 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Room W007, Durham University, December 5th 1-4.30pm With the majority of humans on the planet now residing in towns and cities, it is de rigueur for commentators to describe the world as ‘urban’; to herald an ‘urban revolution’ and proclaim … 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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‘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 →

Posted in Alain Badiou, Books, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Etienne Balibar, Fredric Jameson, Karl Marx, Politics, Publishing, Slavoj Zizek, teaching | Leave a comment

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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