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British Academy, The COVID decade: understanding the long-term societal impacts of COVID-19 – open access report The British Academy was asked by the Government Office for Science to produce an independent review on the long-term societal impacts of COVID-19. This … Continue reading →

Books received – a couple by Julia Kristeva, Jean-Paul Demoule, Ernst Cassirer, Pour Emile Benveniste, Mircea Eliade, Carlo Ginzburg, and Tiphaine Samayoult on Roland Barthes.

Andy Merrifield, Lefebvre in the age of COVID: Lessons from The Urban Revolution and Paris Commune – Monthly Review online Henri Lefebvre’s The Urban Revolution (1970) quietly celebrated its 50th birthday under lockdown, and our greatest ever urban revolution, the Paris Commune (1871), … Continue reading →

Nick Vaughan-Williams, Vernacular Border Security: Citizens’ Narratives of Europe’s ‘Migration Crisis’ – Oxford University Press, June 2021 Since the peak of Europe’s so-called 2015 ‘migration crisis’, the dominant governmental response has been to turn to deterrent border security across the … Continue reading →

Tuomo Alhojärvi, For Postcapitalist Studies: Inheriting Futures of Space and Economy – Nordia, March 2021 The worldwide social and ecological unravelling of the 21st century presents an unprecedented challenge for thinking and practising liveable economies. As life support systems are … Continue reading →

Candace Fujikane, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai’i – Duke University Press, March 2021 The Introduction is open access here. In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future, Candace Fujikane contends that the practice … Continue reading →

Maria Koinova, Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States – Oxford University Press, March 2021 Why do conflict-generated diasporas mobilize in contentious and non-contentious ways or use mixed strategies? This book develops a theory of socio-spatial positionality and its implications for the … Continue reading →

Two radio programmes on Foucault Michel Foucault : Le souci de l’autre (1984 / France Culture) – thanks to Tim Howles for sharing this and also Michel Foucault (1926-1984) : Une vie, une oeuvre [1988 / France Culture] There are … Continue reading →

Mark Olssen, Constructing Foucault’s Ethics: A Poststructuralist Moral Theory for the Twenty-First Century – Manchester University Press, June 2021 updated 28 May 2021 with new description and table of contents In popularizing the term ‘speaking truth to power’, now widely … Continue reading →