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10 Steps to PhD Success – a response to the THE post on ‘failure’ by Fiona Whelan. Thanks to Jeffrey Jerome Cohen for the link to this

A quiet week on the blog – I was in Paris most of the week doing work in the BNF (see no 4 below), which doesn’t have internet in the manuscripts room, so no distractions… The Times Higher Education on … Continue reading →

Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis, edited by Gerry Kearns, David Meredith and John Morrissey, reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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

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

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →