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Jeffrey Alexander’s new book reviewed.

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
I’ve been asked to give the first Neil Smith Lecture at St Andrews (where Neil was a cherished alumnus, graduating with first class honours in 1977: he always spoke with immense affection of Joe Doherty),…

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
We’ve seven – seven! – new book reviews in our open access repository: Seth Schindler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) on Ahmed et al.’s India’s New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis; Gerald Aiken (Durham University) on David…

Originally posted on Open Geography:
The recent–and still ongoing–revelations in the Guardian by their columnist Glenn Greenwald and his colleagues have already given rise to a number of dismissive myths. Here are three of them, and my responses. 1. “It’s…

Pam Shurmer-Smith on the posthumous Mary Douglas collection.

Several new Society and Space papers online.

Intriguing new map – full details and explanatory video here.

Speculations IV out – a lot of interesting looking papers.

PhD Studentships in Geopolitics, Cyber Security and Society at Royal Holloway – with an excellent supervision team.

At the Society and Space open site – a brief commentary by Peter Gratton and links to five open access papers that provide a background to recent events in Turkey.