Category Archives: Society and Space

Michele Lancione and Abdoumaliq Simone, David Harvey, Alain Badiou, Panagiotis Sotiris, William Davies and Angela Last on Covid-19

A few pieces by geographers, sociologists and philosophers – presented without commentary [Update: an updated list is available here – thanks to people for sending additional links. I’ll try to keep that page updated as I see more] Michele Lancione and Abdoumaliq … Continue reading

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Society and Space book series – Adams, Circulation and Urbanization and Beer, The Data Gaze

Finally got series editor copies of the two new books in the Society and Space book series – David Beer, The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception and Ross Exo Adams, Circulation and Urbanization. Both highly recommended, of course! More details on … Continue reading

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My favourite academic books of 2018

My favourite academic books of 2018. As with previous years – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 – these are shaped by my interests, books that are sent to me, ones from publishers I review for, etc. etc. I’ve not read all the … Continue reading

Posted in Boundaries, Doreen Massey, Frantz Fanon, Georges Canguilhem, Jacques Derrida, Jeff Malpas, Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Maja Zehfuss, Michel Foucault, Philip Steinberg, Society and Space, Uncategorized, William Shakespeare | 7 Comments

David Beer, The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception – Sage 2018 (Society and Space series)

David Beer, The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception is now published. This is the latest book in the Sage Society and Space book series, which I edit. A significant new way of understanding contemporary capitalism is to understand the intensification … Continue reading

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David Beer on the process of writing The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception

The next book in the Society and Space book series will be David Beer, The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception. Dave has an interesting post on the process of writing the book at Medium. A significant new way of … Continue reading

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David Beer, The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception – next book in Sage Society and Space series

David Beer, The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception – will be the next book in the Sage Society and Space book series I edit. More details on the series and other forthcoming titles can be found here. The Sage … Continue reading

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Society and Space book series update – published and forthcoming titles

        Three books have been published so far in the Society and Space book series I edit with Sage: Dan Bulley, Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces Of Hospitality In International Politics Marcus Doel, Geographies of Violence: Killing Space, … Continue reading

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50 Years of Environment and Planning – new website, launch of EPE: Nature and Space and 50 free-to-access articles

A new website for the journals, launch of Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, renaming of A, B and C, and 50 free to access articles from the journals. First published in June 1969, the first issue of Environment and Planning was one … Continue reading

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Marcus Doel’s Geographies of Violence in the Society and Space book series now published

Marcus Doel’s book Geographies of Violence: Killing Time, Killing Space is now published. This is the third book to appear in the Society and Space book series I edit with Sage. We experience violence all our lives, from that very first scream … Continue reading

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Society and Space book series – first two volumes by Bulley and Klauser out soon

Over the past several years I’ve been working with Sage on a Society and Space book series, which is linked to the Environment and Planning D: Society and Space journal (now published by Sage). There are several books under contract or … Continue reading

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