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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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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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