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cfp AAG 2018: Anxious/Desiring Geographies

Posted on September 26, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Call for Papers: “Anxious/Desiring geographies.” AAG Annual Conference New Orleans April 10-14, 2018 Organizers: Jeremy W. Crampton (Kentucky, USA), Nick Robinson (RHUL, UK), Mikko Joronen (Tampere, Finland). At this political moment we seem beset by…

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Rob Weatherill, The Anti-Oedipus Complex Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism

Posted on September 25, 2017 by stuartelden

Rob Weatherill, The Anti-Oedipus Complex: Lacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism – now out with Routledge. Thanks to Sebastian Budgen for the link. The Anti-Oedipus Complex critically explores the post-‘68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the … Continue reading →

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Nick Megoran, Nationalism and Central Asia: A Biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary

Posted on September 25, 2017 by stuartelden

Nick Megoran, Nationalism and Central Asia: A Biography of the Uzbekistan-Kyrgyzstan Boundary now out from University of Pittsburgh Press. Nick Megoran explores the process of building independent nation-states in post-Soviet Central Asia through the lens of the disputed border territory … Continue reading →

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Hameiri, Hughes and Scarpello, International Intervention and Local Politics – now out with CUP

Posted on September 23, 2017 by stuartelden

Shahar Hameiri, Caroline Hughes, and Fabio Scarpello, International Intervention and Local Politics: Fragmented States and the Politics of Scale, now out with Cambridge University Press. International peace- and state-building interventions have become ubiquitous in international politics since the 1990s, aiming to tackle the … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory, ‘War at a Distance: the Modern Battlefield’ (video)

Posted on September 23, 2017 by stuartelden

War at a Distance: the Modern Battlefield – Derek Gregory lecture, Radboud University, Nijmegen. In a modern war the battlefield can be anywhere. Drones and aerial bombing mean that there isn’t a clear frontline anymore. Because of this an even … Continue reading →

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CfP: Political Geologies: Earth Sciences and Subterranean Territorialization (AAG 2018)

Posted on September 23, 2017 by stuartelden

CfP: Political Geologies: Earth Sciences and Subterranean Territorialization – Association of American Geographers meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana; April 10-14, 2018 Organizers: Andrea Marston (UC Berkeley); Matt Himley (Illinois State University) Sponsors: Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group; Political Geography Specialty Group Session … Continue reading →

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Rosi Braidotti, ‘Are ‘WE’ in this together?’ video of UCL-IAS lecture

Posted on September 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Rosi Braidotti, ‘Are ‘WE’ in this together?’ video of UCL-IAS lecture, 21 September 2017 This lecture explores the re-compositions of a vulnerable sense of pan-humanity (‘WE’) in the context of Anthropocenic climate change discussion (‘this’). It will focus on three … Continue reading →

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Russell Brand and David Harvey, ‘Marxism On The Rise – Can It Really Defeat Capitalism?’ Podcast

Posted on September 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Also from David Harvey, and if you can cope with Russell Brand… Russell Brand and David Harvey, ‘Marxism On The Rise – Can It Really Defeat Capitalism?‘ Podcast Harvey’s new book is Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason

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David Harvey, ‘Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason’ – video of LSE talk

Posted on September 22, 2017 by stuartelden

David Harvey, ‘Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason’ – video of LSE talk, 18 September 2017 Download : Audio, Video Editor’s note: We regret to say that owing to a technical problem the first few minutes of the … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Mathieson on REF 2021 & ECRs: the current situation

Posted on September 22, 2017 by stuartelden

Charlotte Mathieson on REF 2021 & ECRs: the current situation If you’re an early career researcher – or even a bit further ahead than that – and based in the UK, this is a really helpful summary of the situation … Continue reading →

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