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“Future Fossils” Exhibition by Beth Greenhough, Jamie Lorimer and Kathryn Yusoff

A Society and Space open site forum on the notion of ‘Future Fossils’.

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The Sociological Imagination – 40 reasons why you should blog about your research

40 reasons why you should blog about your research at The Sociological Imagination

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The Times Higher Education on ’10 steps to PhD failure’

The Times Higher Education on ‘10 steps to PhD failure‘. Some of these are rather US-specific, especially concerning the advice on funding, but generally these are worth thinking about. On the issue of staying in the same place, I don’t … Continue reading

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Books received – Sloterdijk, Foucault, Shakespeare, Saquet

The latest translation from Sloterdijk – In the Shadow of Mount Sinai, the NRF editions of three of Foucault’s books, the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of Romeo and Juliet, and some publications from Marcos Aurelio Saquet.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Online resources to help students summarize journal articles and write critical reviews‘ Popular Culture and World Politics’, an open access edited collection from E-IR Travelling through words (Derek Gregory’s contribution to How We Write) New Series – Cultural Geographies: Rewriting the Earth Figure/Ground interview … Continue reading

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E-IR on ‘The Importance of Open Access’

E-IR has a piece on ‘The Importance of Open Access‘. It is rightly critical of the ‘author pays’ model, and shows how its own model is dependent on a large team of volunteers. I’ve shared links to E-IR collections in the … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society (2015)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michel Foucault, The Punitive Society: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1972-1973, Edited by Arnold I. Davidson, Palgrave Macmillan, September 2015 Publisher’s page ‘Unfortunately, when we teach morality, when we study the history of morals,…

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New Associate Editors at Political Geography

Halvard Buhaug Fiona McConnell The new Political Geography editorial team for 2016 (and beyond?) is now in place. James Sidaway, Jo Sharp, and I will be joined by two new associate editors: Halvard Buhaug, from the Peace Research Institute Oslo…

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Wall Exchange: Forensic Architecture

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
“When war happens in the city, people die in buildings, the majority in their homes; when the dust settles ruins become evidence with which we could reconstruct controversial events.” Eyal Weizman I’m delighted to announce…

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‘Popular Culture and World Politics’, an open access edited collection from E-IR

‘Popular Culture and World Politics‘, an open access edited collection from E-IR. This edited collection brings together cutting edge insights from a range of key thinkers working in the area of popular culture and world politics (PCWP). Offering a holistic … Continue reading

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