Category Archives: Publishing

Paul Ashton of re.press on publishing

Posted on January 12, 2011 by stuartelden

This was posted as a comment, but since these don’t show up in readers etc. unless you subscribe specifically to comments, I will post it here. Hi Stuart, I might take this opportunity to write a few comments in an … Continue reading →

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Harman on Writing

Posted on January 11, 2011 by stuartelden

Really interesting piece here from Graham Harman on writing. I’m firmly of the view that academics don’t talk enough about the mechanics of writing, and that they only way that we can work out practices that work best for us … Continue reading →

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Crises of Writing Confidence

Posted on January 7, 2011 by stuartelden

One of the best PhD students I know has posted about feeling a crisis of confidence in his thesis. It’s doubting the argument, the importance of the claims, our ability to accomplish our goals. I think that while the feeling … Continue reading →

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Speculations II

Posted on January 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Speaking of Speculations – call for papers for volume II (via AHB). Just a reminder that the Speculations Volume II deadline is tomorrow (Jan. 8th). Speculations, a journal for speculative realist thought, invites submissions for its second issue. Given the … Continue reading →

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Graham Harman on Open Access Publishing

Posted on January 7, 2011 by stuartelden

Some interesting thoughts here, based on his experience with The Speculative Turn, and Prince of Networks. Much of this is undoubtedly right, and I think there is a lot of potential for these kinds of publishing outlets. 4-5,000 downloads of … Continue reading →

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Why Publish Journal Articles?

Posted on January 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Thom Brooks offers some answers here (via Leiter Reports). He suggests three answers to why we publish – 1. Journal articles as a seal of approval 2. Journal articles as an academic job qualification 3. Journal articles as academic brand awareness … Continue reading →

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Revista Urban calls for papers

Posted on January 2, 2011 by stuartelden

The Spanish journal Revista Urban has calls for papers for two new themes here. One of them in particular is interesting Specters of Lefebvre Henri Lefebvre continues to cast a long shadow. Under the sign of a ‘spatial turn’, the … Continue reading →

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Dialogues in Human Geography

Posted on December 14, 2010 by stuartelden

March 2011 sees the launch issue of the journal Dialogues in Human Geography. I was sceptical of the need for yet another disciplinary-specific journal, but the editors do seem to be trying to do something different, and I’m involved in … Continue reading →

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Advice for PhD students

Posted on December 14, 2010 by stuartelden

Bradley L. Garrett offers some interesting, useful, and sometimes funny, advice here.

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How to Referee

Posted on December 5, 2010 by stuartelden

Thom Brooks offers some advice on how to referee here. It is a followup to his earlier guidelines for graduate students on publishing (here). Lots of really helpful suggestions – tell your students! 

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