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Ulrich Beck obituary in The Guardian

The busiest week for a while – lots of popular posts, especially the first. The most important academic books to me from 2014 (and from 2013) Antonio Gramsci, ‘I Hate New Year’s Day’ – translation online Ulrich Beck (1944-2015) and obituary … Continue reading →

Ulrich Beck died two days ago – obituary in German here. Beck was professor of sociology at Munich and the LSE, and writer on risk society, cosmopolitanism and globalisation. Thanks to Roland Bleiker for the link to the German obituary.

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
These superimposed maps of Cleveland now and then are easily used. (University of Oklahoma) The University of Oklahoma’s Institute for Quality Communities has developed a website that offers superimposed maps of major American…

Originally posted on Foucault News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmoguMXPxCI Judith Butler. Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. 2014 Published on 1 Jan 2015 http://www.egs.edu Judith Butler, philosopher and author, speaking about avowal and disavowal in conversation with Michel Foucault’s Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling in which Foucault attempts to establish…

Originally posted on Notes On Liberty:
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French writer on various but related topics of power, knowledge, discourse, history of thought, ethics, politics, and so on. His name to some summons negative associations of French intellectual…

Interesting call for papers for the next RGS-IBG conference, building on some ideas discussed at the Warwick political geography conference last year.

Thomas Piketty refuses la Légion d’honneur – story in Le Monde. Je refuse cette nomination car je ne pense pas que ce soit le rôle d’un gouvernement de décider qui est honorable », a-t-il justifié, estimant que l’Etat « ferait bien de se consacrer à la relance de … Continue reading →

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Thanks for reading! Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 450,000 times in 2014. If it were … Continue reading →