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According to WordPress, there have now been just over a million views of Progressive Geographies since the blog started in 2010. That’s page views, not visits. The map below – which shows visits from October 2013 – gives a good … Continue reading →

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Lecture of 1st March, 1981 Foucault highlights the difference between love for women and love for boys, and the value placed on the man-woman love, particularly man-wife love, in antiquity in the period of Hellentistic-Roman philosophy.…

Explaining ISIS/ISIL – a roundup of things to read How powerful is your passport? – infographic The Constitution of Scottish Territory “Thought is the courage of hopelessness” – interview with Giorgio Agamben Richard Wolin on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks in the … Continue reading →

Benjamin Kunkel reviews Thomas Piketty in the LRB – free to read online. Update – many more reviews here: thanks to Simone Tulumello for the link.

Jens Bartleson –  “From Empire to Sovereignty—and Back?“, Ethics and International Affairs. A review essay of David Armitage, Foundations of Modern International Thought; Lauren Benton, A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires 1400–1900; and Jean L. Cohen’s Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, and Constitutionalism.

Environment and Planning A theme issue on ‘territorial stigmatisation’.

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The Times Higher has an interesting and worrying piece about the clash between the editors of a journal and their publisher Taylor & Francis. Here’s the opening few lines: A journal’s editorial board has been left on…

This looks interesting – thanks to Peter Gratton for the link.

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 11th February, 1981 Foucault continues the theme from the previous lecture of community in marriage. He largely refers to Stoics, particularly Musonius Rufus (best known as the teacher of Epictetus. Foucault takes the discussion…