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Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
The AAG has posted interviews with 25 Geographers from the “Geographers on Film” Archive available here. The first interview is with Carl O. Sauer (1889-1975) from 1970 (Berkeley, cultural [geography], founded Department@Berkley 1923, AAG Pres. 1940, Honorary…

Sara Ahmed reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

Interview with Lauren Berlant at the Society and Space open site. Note also her book Desire/Love is available as an open access PDF or a print-on-demand book from Punctum.

In the New Statesman, Richard J. Evans discusses Michael Gove’s history curriculum. If you don’t know who Michael Gove is, be grateful – he’s the British Government’s Secretary of State for Education.

Science and the English Language – lessons from George Orwell, at the LSE Impact of Social Science blog. Some lessons for all writers here, and of course in Orwell’s original essay “Politics and the English Language“.

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
RIP Chinua Achebe, 1930-2013 Nigerian author Chinua Achebe died today at the age 82. I will never forget the first time I read Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s famous novel that mixes elements of magical realism and postcolonial…

At the Contemporary Condition, BillWilliam Connolly on the Dilemma of Electoral Politics. Also provides the subtitle of his forthcoming book The Fragility of Things: self-organizing processes, neoliberal fantasies, democratic activism.

from his final book, Fractured Times, a short excerpt on the myth of the cowboy, in The Guardian