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Book Review Symposium – Shiloh Krupar’s Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Shiloh R. Krupar, Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780816676385 (cloth); ISBN: 9780816676392 (paper) Editor’s introduction – Jenna Loyd, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Shiloh Krupar’s Hot Spotter’s…

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Chamayou G 2015 “Drone Theory” reviewed by Britain Hopkins

Chamayou’s Drone Theory reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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2016 Symposium CfP: “Spatializing Sovereignty”

Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life:
We are pleased to announce the theme of our 2016 symposium, “Spatializing Sovereignty,” which will be held at UC Berkeley on Friday, March 4, 2016 and feature keynote addresses by Dr.…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Johannes Angermuller, Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France – now out with Bloomsbury (and free download of introduction) Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant – now published from Stanford University Press (and sample to download) Foucault on the State in … Continue reading

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Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant – now published from Stanford University Press (and sample to download)

Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant – is now published from Stanford University Press. I provide one of the endorsements. Twenty pages are available to download at academia.edu This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. … Continue reading

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Foucault and the Politics of Rights (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights, Stanford University Press, 2015, Now available. Publisher’s page This book focuses on Michel Foucault’s late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics…

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How We Write

Originally posted on The page “Newfoundland Literature” does not exist:
Putting a piece of writing out into the world is a bit like tossing a pebble down a mountainside. Usually it clatters down alone, bouncing a bit off this outcrop…

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Infrastructuring Aid: A Photo Essay by Kevin Donovan

A new photo essay at the Society and Space open site, on humanitarian aid in Kenya by Kevin Donovan.

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New Perspectives online – first issue available with three open access pieces

The first issue of New Perspectives – the successor to the journal Perspectives, with a focus on central and Eastern Europe  – is now available online. Three pieces are open access: Johan van der Walt’s ‘The Literary Exception: Reflections on Agamben’s “Liberal Democratic” Political Theology … Continue reading

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After Neil Smith Tribute

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
The webpage of the Espais Crítics collective has now links to the set of presentations of the conference in tribute to the late Neil Smith. It was a remarkable and yet kind of sad occasion, given…

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