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Terra-forming Islands in the South China Sea, or the Future of International Law in the Age of Anthropocene

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
As per our disciplinary formations, IR scholars often indoctrinate instruct their students with the assumption that anarchy is a constant in international relations. The use of the term, however, generally assumes that there…

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Airspace in De Facto States: Remarks on Ukraine Crisis at the New School, 3 October 2014

Originally posted on Critical Geopolitics:
Given the recent helicopter shoot down in Nagorno Karabakh, and the ongoing fighting over Donetsk airport, I’m posting below some remarks I made at the New School conference last month on the Ukrainian crisis. Point…

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Another Islamic State? The Shifting Tactics of Boko Haram

Originally posted on Geography Directions:
By Stuart Elden, University of Warwick and Monash University Military Presence in Maitama, Abuja (image credit: Stuart Elden) The Sunni Islamic group known as ‘Boko Haram’, active in the northeast of the country since at…

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CFP: CRMEP 2015 Graduate Conference: Philosophy, Power, Potentialities

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Call for papers CRMEP 2015 Graduate Conference: Philosophy, Power, Potentialities Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London, Penrhyn Road campus, KT1 2EE Thursday 21st – Friday 22nd May 2015 Confirmed keynote speaker:…

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Upcoming ‘Wet Ontologies’ articles & talks

Two articles from my ‘Wet Ontologies’ project, both co-authored with Kimberley Peters, are due for publication in the next month or two: ‘Wet Ontologies, Fluid Dynamics: Giving Depth to Volume through Oceanic Thinking’, which will be published in Environment and…

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The Politics of the UK HE Marking Boycott, Part II

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
Given the level of interest in my previous post (over 2,400 views in the last 10 days), I thought I would provide an analysis of UCU’s counter-proposals on USS and of the ongoing…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Foucault Resources An alternative map of Africa – reimagining the continent without colonisation Call For Papers – ‘Thinking with Algorithms’, Durham, 26-27 Feb 2015 Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth’ lecture at Nottingham Contemporary The Fabric of Space: Matthew … Continue reading

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The Fabric of Space: Matthew Gandy’s new book on water, modernity and the urban imagination

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This looks like a really interesting new title from MIT Press from Matthew Gandy. From the publisher’s website: “Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of…

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An alternative map of Africa – reimagining the continent without colonisation

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
An intriguing map of Africa, imaging how it might have looked had it not been colonised. This might be a good spur to class discussion, though one thing that should immediately be noted is that…

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Public Funding for berfrois.com – please consider donating

I’ve now published five pieces on the http://www.berfrois.com website – the latest, with links to the others, is here. But I’m also a reader of the material they publish – very wide ranging, regularly interesting, and an important alternative to … Continue reading

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