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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

The busiest week on the blog for a while, mainly due to the first two of these posts: Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 Eleven thoughts on reading and citing 12 Critical Theory books that came out … Continue reading

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Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project and International Workshop Awards 2016

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
We’re pleased to announce the fourth year of the Antipode Foundation’s Scholar-Activist Project and International Workshop Awards. Scholar-Activist Project Awards are single-year grants of up to £10,000 intended to support collaborations between academics and students…

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The Geographer Royal – and what it means

An interesting piece giving the background to Charles Withers’s recent appointment as Geographer Royal for Scotland.

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Think. Check. Submit. (How to Have Trust in Your Publisher.)

A new initiative for academics submitting to journals, directed at saving people and papers from “predatory” publishers.

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12 Critical Theory books that came out in September

12 Critical Theory books that came out in September – another helpful roundup from critical-theory.com… Massumi, Bargu, Nail, Benjamin, etc.

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Review of Jacob Taubes’ Occidental Eschatology and From Cult to Culture at An und für sich

Review of Jacob Taubes’ Occidental Eschatology and From Cult to Culture at An und für sich by Anthony Paul Smith. Below is a long review of two of Jacob Taubes’ recently (relatively) translated works. This was originally written for a journal, but … Continue reading

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‘Adventures in No Man’s Land’ – BBC coverage of Alisdair Pinkerton and Noam Leshom’s research project

BBC News has a story on Alisdair Pinkerton and Noam Leshom’s research project into historical and current examples of No Man’s Land. What exactly is No Man’s Land? It may be the space on a battlefield between two opposing front lines, a … Continue reading

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Foucault the mayonnaise maker and card cheat…

Foucault’s nephew, Henri Paul Fruchaud, has done some valuable work editing his texts in the last few years. This interview with a local paper says a bit about his uncle’s work habits, but also gives a couple of anecdotes that are somewhat … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979

‘The refugee problem is a foreshadowing of the 21st century’s great migration’ (“Nanmin mondai ha 21 seiku minzoku daiidô no zenchô da”, an interview by H.Uno, originally published on 17 August 1979, in Shûkan posuto, pp. 34-35) republished under the title … Continue reading

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Popular geopolitics of James Bond – ‘The World is not Enough’

Klaus Dodds shares an update on the book he is writing on James Bond with Lisa Funnell.

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