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Ron Johnston on the legacy, and last books, of Peter Hall

Professor Sir Peter Hall died in July 2014. Active as a scholar, policy analyst and future-thinker almost to the end, his most recent book – Good Cities, Better Lives – appeared earlier that year, alongside a festschrift edited by his … Continue reading →

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Volume, Depth, and the (In)visibilities of Water

Thanks to a retweet from Klaus Dodds, I recently read this blogpost by marine ecologist Jon Copley on seabed mapping. Copley’s central message is that the statistics that we continually see reproduced in the media about 95% of the seabed…

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Henri Lefebvre, Vers une architecture de la jouissance

While there is a published translation into English, Henri Lefebvre’s 1973 manuscript Vers une architecture de la jouissance has, until now, not been available in French. Now an excerpt has been published in Criticat, and a full edition may be forthcoming. This issue of … Continue reading →

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Ethnofiction: Augé’s No Fixed Abode reviewed

Marc Augé’s No Fixed Abode reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

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Conflicts without borders

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
In Finland last month I gave a presentation on Law, violence and b/ordering, in which I began by making two preliminary points about border crossings and (para)military violence: trans-border incursions and transgressions have been facilitated…

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Hong Kong and new book releases at Reconsidering Politics

The Politics and International Studies at Warwick blog, Reconsidering Politics, has new posts on the situation in Hong Kong and new book releases from colleagues.

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

What if the largest countries had the biggest populations? An interesting new world map Nine visual ‘attempts to explain the crazy complexity of the Middle East’ Towards a reading list on the Ebola crisis History of Philosophy chart Ebola reading … Continue reading →

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Peter Gratton, Speculative Realism – and links to journal articles on this theme

Some papers from the Society and Space journal and open site that relate to Peter Gratton’s newly published book.

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Ebola reading list updated

Ebola is all over the front-pages of newspapers today, in part due to the Spanish nurse and the death of the Liberian in the US. The Guardian has a live blog with updates, and the World Bank has produced a report on the wider … Continue reading →

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Sarah Radcliffe on Inca Sacred Space

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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