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The Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers has issued the following statement which they have asked me to pass on… The committee of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (RGS-IBG) would … Continue reading →

Peter Ludlow has written an analysis of Assange, available through the Leiter Reports blog: I’ve organized my summary of his position into three parts.  First, I’ll look at his view of what conspiracies are and how they are formed.  Second, … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished reading the manuscript of Scott Kirsch & Colin Flint (eds.), Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies  forthcoming with Ashgate in 2011. I was asked to write an endorsement which I was pleased to do. It has a number … Continue reading →

Speculations, a journal for speculative realist thought, invites submissions for its second volume. Given the intrinsically open and unconstrained nature of the arena for speculative thought which Speculations aims at embodying — and in view of the favourable reception of … Continue reading →

Many people will be aware of the ‘what is it like to be a woman in philosophy’ blog, which makes for very depressing reading. Here’s an example from history – both in time (from 1954) and the discipline… From the … Continue reading →

Posted on behalf of Jeff Malpas The Place Research Network is now live and accessible at http://www.placenetwork.info The Place Research Network is a website, built around social networking software adapted to academic needs, that aims to support, enable and encourage interdisciplinary … Continue reading →

I’ve been thinking about how certain phrases which don’t make sense become ingrained in discussions. There is something about the mere invocation of these that indicates (to some) that the invoker doesn’t really know what they are talking about, but … Continue reading →