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Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions is forthcoming in June 2014. Saskia Sassen, “Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality” – lecture at Durham University in February 2014 (via ANTHEM). Update: a lecture at the LSE on the same topic is available here…

The latest issue of Speculations is out – on Aesthetics in the 21st Century. Essays by Steven Shaviro, Sjoerd van Tuinen, Graham Harman, Claire Colebrook and many others. Free to download or paperback to buy here.

Many more here.

The Association of American Geographers seeks applications and nominations for a team of two co-editors for a new AAG journal, to be published by Routledge titled GeoHumanities.  The co-editors will be appointed for a four-year editorial term that will commence December … Continue reading →

Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study invites applications to its Visiting Fellowship Programme (Deadline 30 June 2014) – full details here.

RGS-IBG journals and book series seek new editors.

Originally posted on Governing Emergencies:
Initial details of a workshop at Durham on ‘Austerity and Emergency/Crisis’. It’s not formally part of the network, but obviously linked. If anyone is interested in attending or contributing then please get in contact with…

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

Originally posted on Foucault News:
James Faubion (Editor), Foucault Now, Polity, February 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7456-6378-4 232 pages Publisher’s page Description Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend…

The Biopolitics of Biometrics: An Interview with Btihaj Ajana, conducted by David Beer on the Theory, Culture & Society website. This interview focuses upon Btihaj Ajana’s recently published book Governing Through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity (2013). Although the interview focuses centrally … Continue reading →