Refugee movements visualised, 2000-16 [update: and its problems]

Posted on June 15, 2017 by stuartelden

Now with a link to Phil Steinberg’s critical commentary.

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Refugee movements visualised, 2000-16 – at mashable

An interactive visualisation – perhaps a good basis for class discussion.

mashableThanks to dmf for the link.

Update: Phil Steinberg has pointed me to a 2015 post in which he explored some of the problems with an earlier form of this visualisation.

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Refugee movements visualised, 2000-16 [update: and its problems]

Posted on June 14, 2017 by stuartelden

Refugee movements visualised, 2000-16 – at mashable

An interactive visualisation – perhaps a good basis for class discussion.

mashableThanks to dmf for the link.

Update: Phil Steinberg has pointed me to a 2015 post in which he explored some of the problems with an earlier form of this visualisation.

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Roman roads of Europe – subway-map

Posted on June 14, 2017 by stuartelden

Roman roads of Europe reimagined as a subway-map.

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Thanks to Jean-François Thibault for the link. For an interactive Roman route planner, see OmnesViae.

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Books received – Merleau-Ponty, Lacan, Low, Amoore & Piotukh, de Bodt, TCS

Posted on June 13, 2017 by stuartelden

Some recently received books, mainly in recompense for review work, along with Saskia de Bodt’s Children of Holland and the new issue of Theory, Culture and Society on ‘Geosocial Formations and the Anthropocene’.

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Interview with Wendy Brown in Theory, Culture & Society

Posted on June 10, 2017 by stuartelden

logo95x95Interview with Wendy Brown in Theory, Culture & Society

Redoing the Demos? An Interview with Wendy Brown

Samuel Burgum, Sebastian Raza, & Jorge Vasquez

The following discussion with philosopher and political scientist Wendy Brown seeks to apply her provocative and indispensable ideas to recent political events and problems, in particular focusing on her work in Undoing the Demos (2015) and returning briefly to consider Politics Out of History (2001) in today’s context. The questions were collectively authored and the interview itself was conducted by Sebastian Raza via Skype on 23rd May 2017. We would like to thank Wendy Brown for the generous contribution of her time and for answering the questions so directly and clearly. This interview has also been published in Spanish with the journal Theorein.

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Andrew J. Mitchell, The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger reviewed at NDPR

Posted on June 9, 2017 by stuartelden

Mitchell_Cover.inddAndrew J. Mitchell, The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger is reviewed at NDPR by Gary Aylesworth.

Heidegger’s later thought is a thinking of things, so argues Andrew J. Mitchell in The Fourfold. Heidegger understands these things in terms of what he names “the fourfold”—a convergence of relationships bringing together the earth, the sky, divinities, and mortals—and Mitchell’s book is the first detailed exegesis of this neglected aspect of Heidegger’s later thought. As such it provides entrée to the full landscape of Heidegger’s postwar thinking, offering striking new interpretations of the atomic bomb, technology, plants, animals, weather, time, language, the holy, mortality, dwelling, and more. What results is a conception of things as ecstatic, relational, singular, and, most provocatively, as intrinsically tied to their own technological commodification. A major new work that resonates beyond the confines of Heidegger scholarship, The Fourfold proposes nothing less than a new phenomenological thinking of relationality and mediation for understanding the things around us.

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Books received – Gilot, Boehringer and Lorenzini, Debrix, Chimisso, Merleau-Ponty, Sloterdijk, Stratford, Johnston and Sidaway

Posted on June 8, 2017 by stuartelden

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A pile of recently received books, many in recompense for review work. The Chimisso and Merleau-Ponty are for the Foucault and Canguilhem projects; but also second-hand copies of Françoise Gilot’s biography Life with Picasso, and Boehringer and Lorenzini’s collection on Foucault, sexuality and antiquity. Also copies of recent books by Debrix and Sloterdijk, and the seventh edition of Johnston and Sidaway’s Geography and Geographers.

Also in the pile is a copy of the Bulgarian journal Социологически проблеми [Sociological Problems] that has translations of the interview conducted with me by Antoinette Koleva which was recently in Foucault Studies; and the excerpt from Foucault: The Birth of Power which appeared in Viewpoint magazine – The Biopolitics of Birth: Michel Foucault, the Groupe Information Santé and the Abortion Rights Struggle.

Finally, Elaine Stratford generously sent me a copy of her book Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms over the Life-Course.

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Symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s book Foucault in Iran

Posted on June 7, 2017 by stuartelden
image_miniThanks to Chathan Vemuri for this news:
Jadaliyya recently published a six-part symposium on Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi’s book Foucault in Iran.
Here is part 1
Here is part 2
Here is part 3
Here is part 4
Here is part 5
Here is part 6
Here is the author’s response
Here is an interview with the author about the book for Jadaliyya
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Cambridge Summer School, “The Practice of Social Theory”, 4-6 September 2017

Posted on June 7, 2017 by stuartelden

pablo (14).pngConveners: Jana Bacevic (University of Cambridge) and Mark Carrigan (The Sociological Review)

Passionate about social theory? Want to learn more about how it is created? Interested in seeing theory being made, rather than just read or applied?

Apply to the first Cambridge Summer School in Social Theory, “The Practice of Theory”. Hosted by the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, the school aims to bring together researchers interested in the practice of social theory and its relationship with reading, writing, and teaching in the social sciences.

We invite applications from early career researchers (PhD students or postgraduates) involved in theoretical work within or independently of their theses.

This summer school involves graduate students and early-career researchers in a series of thematic sessions that address different aspects of social theory (writing, teaching, translating, presenting, engaging), and gives them an opportunity to develop outputs and interactive tools that can be applied to a variety of contexts – from theses and articles, to teaching and public engagement. Besides an enhanced understanding of social theory, the school aims to equip participants with ideas, as well as practical skills, for applying this knowledge in communication with both academic and non-academic audiences.

Speakers include Nicholas Gane (Warwick), Linsey McGoey (Essex), and Simon Susen (City).

The participation fee for the school is 75 GBP (this covers teaching materials, coffee and tea breaks, and lunch on 4 and 5 September). Please note that, in order to secure their place, selected participants will be asked to register and pay the participation fee in full via online transfer by 15 July 2017. We regret that we are not able to offer reimbursements (except in outstanding circumstances) nor guarantee your place if you do not register by this date.

Please contact jb906@cam.ac.uk and mark@markcarrigan.net if you have any questions. We’ll be releasing the full programme in the near future and we’ll be in a position to advise successful applicants on affordable accommodation in the area.

Please complete your application by June 20th 2017. We’ll confirm the success of your application by July 1st.

Apply here: https://goo.gl/forms/CBh5RFTCGEi8rf2L2

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The Future of the University Press: A Forum (part open access)

Posted on June 6, 2017 by stuartelden

photo_82345_landscape_850x566.pngThe Future of the University Press: A Forum in the Chronicle of Higher Education (a couple of pieces are open access; most only accessible to subscribers).

We asked publishers, press directors, editors, scholars, and other insiders for their views on the state and future of academic publishing. Of the people we contacted, including the heads of nearly every one of the Association of American University Presses’ 143 members, 46 sent back responses to our questions. We got back a surprisingly wide range of views — and good ideas on how university presses are preparing for an uncertain future.
One open-access part is What book do you wish someone would write?
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