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Paper Trails Conference, 4th July 2019, University College London

Posted on April 5, 2019 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Dr Andrew W. M. Smith:
Often there is more than research inside the books we read. Bookmarks, train tickets, receipts, and menus tucked into pages offer clues about the life of the book itself. Yet the lives…

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Altering cartographies of climate change, Royal Academy, London, 15 April 2019

Posted on April 5, 2019 by stuartelden

Altering cartographies of climate change, Royal Academy, London, 15 April 2019, 6.30-8pm A panel discussion looking at both material and imagined borders, and the ways in which global warming challenges Western conceptions of territory. In 2014, Studio Folder initiated the … Continue reading →

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Orienting Ourselves in the World: The Particular and the General, University of Manchester, 9 May 2019

Posted on April 3, 2019 by stuartelden

Update: 5 April – just been told a few places are available, but be quick. WORKSHOP Orienting Ourselves in the World: The Particular and the General Thursday 9 May 2019, 11am-5:30pm (coffee from 11, programme start at 11:30) The University … Continue reading →

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The 2019 Antipode AAG Lecture – Kristin Ross on “The Seventh Wonder of the Zad”

Posted on April 3, 2019 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Please join us for the 2019 Antipode American Association of Geographers Lecture on Thursday 4th April between 5:00pm and 6:40pm in the Blue Room, Lobby Level, Omni Shoreham Hotel (2500 Calvert Street NW, Washington, DC…

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Sara Fregonese, War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon – IB Tauris, September 2019

Posted on April 3, 2019 by stuartelden

Sara Fregonese, War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon, IB Tauris, September 2019, afterword by Klaus Dodds

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Keith Jacobs, Neoliberal Housing Policy: An International Perspective – Routledge, May 2019

Posted on April 3, 2019 by stuartelden

Keith Jacobs, Neoliberal Housing Policy: An International Perspective – Routledge, May 2019 Neoliberal Housing Policy considers some of the most significant housing issues facing the West today, including the increasing commodification of housing; the political economy surrounding homeownership; the role … Continue reading →

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Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare symposium, Saturday April 6, 2019, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton

Posted on April 3, 2019 by stuartelden

Walter Benjamin and Shakespeare symposium Saturday April 6, 2019, Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton David Garrick built his Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames at Hampton in 1755 as a place where ‘the thinkers of the world’ would meet to reflect on … Continue reading →

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Andrew W. Neil, Security as Politics: Beyond the State of Exception – Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Posted on April 1, 2019 by stuartelden

Andrew W. Neil, Security as Politics: Beyond the State of Exception – Edinburgh University Press, 2019 Uses the perspective of parliamentarians to reassess the relationship between security and politics Andrew W. Neal argues that while ‘security’ was once an anti-political … Continue reading →

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Rosi Braidotti, Posthuman Knowledge – Polity, June 2019

Posted on April 1, 2019 by stuartelden

Rosi Braidotti, Posthuman Knowledge – Polity, June 2019 The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have … Continue reading →

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Books received – Heidegger, Jazeel and Legg, Duarte, Delay, Lentz, Baganato, Ferrari and Pasqual

Posted on March 29, 2019 by stuartelden

The latest volume of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe, Vier Hefte I und II, Tariq Jazeel and Stephen Legg (eds.), Subaltern Geographies, Fábio Duarte, Space, Place and Territory, Steven Delay, Phenomenology in France, Christian C. Lentz, Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest … Continue reading →

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