Category Archives: Society and Space

Society and Space on Occupy

Posted on November 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at the Society and Space open site, Deb Cowen presents five reflections from editorial board members on the Occupy movement. Elena Trubina, Eduardo Mendieta, Juliet Fall, Ananya Roy, and Deborah Bird Rose are posted so far, with more to … Continue reading →

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Theory journals and publishing

Posted on November 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at the Society and Space open site I link to, and briefly discuss, a couple of interesting reflections on publishing today.

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Environment and Planning collection

Posted on November 5, 2011 by stuartelden

The Sage/Pion Environment and Planning Collection is now available. As I’ve said before, this collection is intended for libraries. The collection draws from the four Environment and Planning journals, with the first four volumes devoted to a single journal each, … Continue reading →

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Sara Fregonese on the 2011 Arab Protests

Posted on October 20, 2011 by stuartelden

Over at the Society and Space open site, a commentary entitled “Beyond the Domino: Transnational (In)Security and the 2011 Protests“.

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Open access – for all?

Posted on October 4, 2011 by stuartelden

Ok, I don’t get it. There is a lot of discussion going on about open-access at the moment – partly, as I understood it, because people want to be able to read work; and partly because people want others to … Continue reading →

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Society and Space – supplementary website and book reviews

Posted on September 14, 2011 by stuartelden

The Society and Space supplementary website is now much more than a blog. It will include book reviews and other pieces additional to those in the print and online journal. The editors hope that the book review forum will become a major … Continue reading →

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Society and Space – Writing its History

Posted on September 13, 2011 by stuartelden

(Cross posted from Society and Space) I’ve recently completed work as the managing editor of a five volume compilation of papers from the four Environment and Planning journals. This is a collaborative venture between Pion, who publish the journals, and … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre and Poulantzas review essay

Posted on September 9, 2011 by stuartelden

The new issue of Society and Space is out. Among the interesting papers is a review essay by Andrew Jonas of The Poulantzas Reader and the State, Space, World collection of Henri Lefebvre’s work that Neil Brenner and I edited. … Continue reading →

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Interviews with new Society and Space co-editors

Posted on September 5, 2011 by stuartelden

Interviews with the three new co-editors of Society and Space can be found over at the journal blog – Deborah Cowen interviews Jane M. Jacobs here; Natalie Oswin interviews Maia Green here; and I interview Peter Gratton here.

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Background reading on the English riots

Posted on August 26, 2011 by stuartelden

Two of the best pieces I read on the recent English riots were by Owen Hatherley and Owen Jones. Their recently published books (both with Verso) are really worth reading as background to the context in which these events took … Continue reading →

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