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Originally posted on Politics Reconsidered:
António Ferraz de Oliveira and Mara Duer reflect on the ‘Contested Political Spaces’ postgraduate conference held at Warwick University last week. Last Thursday and Friday, a few months of learning-as-you-go intensive teamwork coalesced into a successful…

New Directions in International Political Economy Conference, Warwick, 13-15 May 2015 – Programme now available.

Originally posted on coasts of bohemia:
UPDATE.  There is a (much cheaper) Kindle edition of this book to come soon, but it is not currently listed on amazon or other sites. Seems oddly appropriate that I should be celebrating my 64th…

A fascinating guest post at Juan Cole’s ever-interesting Informed Comment on “ISIL, Coins, and the Caliphate”. It has been recently reported by Daesh (what most Arabs call the self-styled “Islamic State Group” or IS) that it will be producing and … Continue reading →

Interesting piece by George Monbiot on land ownership in The Guardian, but fully referenced on his website.

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Tonight. Below I go over the debate between Foucault and Derrida after a whole semester in which I taught their texts on crime and punishment, but not this particular debate. It’s…

Originally posted on The Disorder Of Things:
A brief update. As anticipated in Part II, UCU’s higher education committee voted to suspend the industrial action over pensions until 15 January and enter into negotiations with employers, despite opposition from UCU…

A new interview with Eyal Weizman ahead of a film screening in London.