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Trevor Barnes Lecture on History of Economic Geography/Central Place Theory

Roepke lecture in Economic Geography 2011,  “Notes From the Underground: Why the History of Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Economic Geography Matters – The Case of Central Place Theory”. The video is here. Allen Scott is the discussant.

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Conference: Political Events and Spaces of Affect

reposted from crit-geog-forum: 6th September 2011, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol Organized by Dr J-D Dewsbury and Dr Maria Fannin Co-sponsored by: The Institute of Advanced Studies (University of Bristol) and The Worldwide University Network (University of Bristol … Continue reading →

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Collapse VII: Culinary Materialism

Collapse VII: Culinary Materialism is now available for advance ordering, publication due July 1st. Details here. You can also download the intro free.

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British Intellectuals?

The Guardian has published a list of its top 300 British intellectuals here. Some commentary here and thoughts from 10 ‘intellectuals’ here. I’m less interested in who is included (and who not) than the categories into which they are put. … Continue reading →

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A counter-history of liberalism

Verso have translated Domenico Losurdo’s Liberalism: A Counter-History.

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Felix Driver on the History of Geography

In the comments to this earlier post of mine, some thoughts from Felix Driver. Since comments, especially to older posts, are not always noticed, I’m reposting here. Felix was, as my original post said, supportive of my piece. What he … Continue reading →

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Interview

I’m interviewed by John Protevi over at the New APPS site.

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Blogs, again

Adrian tells us to ‘hold [y]our fire’, but I think that the one negative post on crit-geog-forum was indicative of a much wider held belief. I do think some people find blogs threatening. There is an interesting analysis here (via here), especially about … Continue reading →

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Why blog? (2)

The discussion on crit-geog-forum continues, with a long list of blogs by geographers and others with geographical content or relevance. One reason I didn’t mention, since it doesn’t apply to me, but which has come up, is that a lot of … Continue reading →

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Why blog?

A recent discussion on crit-geog-forum, which began with a request for other blogs by geographers, had the question raised as to why anyone bothered with blogs? The commentator said that “it seems to add nothing, but gears and joys itself … Continue reading →

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