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Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
The fourth Antipode Foundation Institute for the Geographies of Justice took place last week in Durban, South Africa. It sounds like it was a great event – more on this soon. For now, though, we’re…

Adam Kotsko on how to read Agamben.

Originally posted on Prof Dominique Moran:
‘Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention‘ (Ashgate, 2013) edited by Dominique Moran, Nick Gill and Deirdre Conlon. This book draws together the work of a new community of scholars with…

Books that inspired academics.

Very interesting interview with Paul Rabinow.

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Amazing visualizations out of Twitter labs. All geotagged tweets since the beginning for various places around the world. North America (click image for more):

A forum on geography and social media in Dialogues in Human Geography.

Only just heard about this major conference on Machiavelli, with a host of interesting speakers including Balibar, Lezra, Montag and Vatter. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) is the most important and influential political thinker of the early modern age. Every single political … Continue reading →

This and more at the BBC News site. Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.

A map of every street, town, and city Dylan has ever sung about.