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Edward Soja, Andy Merrifield and Maria Kaika on the future of urban studies (via Urban Cultural Studies).

The Guardian has a gallery of striking images of Greenland and Antarctica ice sheet melt.

ClustrMaps, which this blog uses to track where visitors are from, cleared my two-year old map and started a new one a month ago. In that month there were just over 10,000 discrete visits – only counting people who visited … Continue reading →

Details of the Durham Doctoral Studentships and ESRC studentships – the most common funding schemes used in Human Geography – are available here. Details of the department’s programmes, research topics, etc. are available here.

At Books and Ideas, a wide-ranging interview with Étienne Balibar.

In the Politicised Literary Geographies event, one of the things discussed was the relation between the discipline of Geography and the Humanities. Geography is often put in a Social Sciences faculty (which can be seen as an issue by Physical … Continue reading →

Open access discussed

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
One evening at a remote provincial college through which I happened to be jogging on a protracted lecture tour, I suggested a little quiz—ten definitions of a reader, and from these ten the students had to…