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Pluto Press Megasale: 40% off all books!

Pluto Press have a sale…

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Jonathan P Allen comments on Matthew Wilson’s ‘Continuous connectivity’ article

A commentary on a recent piece in the journal – the original piece is open access for a month.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Globalization: the career of a concept – special issue of Globalizations Giving a Philosophy Talk The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society (2014) September issue of Antipode out now My essay on Foucault’s La société … Continue reading

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The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society (2014)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Miguel Vatter, The Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society, Fordham University Press,June 2014 ISBN: 9780823256020 Further info Details of workshop on book below description. This book takes up Foucault’s hypothesis…

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Stuart Elden and Todd Reisz opening lectures to ‘Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad’ conference

This is the video of the opening keynote session of the ‘Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad’ conference, which includes my lecture ‘Crises of Territorial Integrity: Iraq and Nigeria’. My talk is from 11.50-38 minutes – … Continue reading

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Giving a Philosophy Talk

Originally posted on Daily Nous – old:
Ole Koksvik (Bergen), along with the help of friends, has put together a very useful set of tips for giving a philosophy talk.  I appreciated the “rationale” section, in which he notes, among other…

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Aiken reviews Koelsch’s Geography and the Classical World

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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AAG Call for Papers: Territory beyond Terra

Together with Kimberley Peters and Elaine Stratford, I’m organising a session at next year’s Association of American Geographers meeting on ‘Territory beyond Terra’. For more information, see the Call-for-Papers.

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2015 Symposium CFP Announcement: “Inhabiting Containment”

Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life:
We are pleased to announce the theme of our 2015 symposium, “Inhabiting Containment,” which will be held at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA on Friday, February 27,…

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Globalization: the career of a concept – special issue of Globalizations

In the new special issue of Globalizations, guest editors Paul James & Manfred B. Steger track the careers of major scholars in relation to the career of the concept of ‘Globalization’, including interviews with notable researchers in the field. Read interviews with twelve … Continue reading

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