I’ll be spending several weeks between April and June 2017 as a visiting scholar at ACCESS Europe at the University of Amsterdam. ACCESS is the Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies.
While there I will be giving a public lecture, leading a PhD reading seminar on urban territory, and we will host the first workshop of the Territory sub theme of the ICE-LAW project. More details on the lecture and workshop soon.
Critique n° 835 is a theme issue entitled ‘Michel Foucault. Un très beau feu d’artifice‘.
Perhaps the key piece of interest is a previously unpublished lecture by Foucault, ‘La littérature et la folie’, edited from the manuscript at the Bibliothèque Nationale.
Michel FOUCAULT : La littérature et la folie
Laurent JENNY : Foucault et la littérature. Une passante
Michel Foucault, La Grande Étrangère. À propos de la littérature
Œuvres
« Homère, les récits, l’éducation, les discours »Pedro CORDOBA : Le Mardi gras de la folie
Jean-François Bert et Elisabetta Basso (éd.), Foucault à Münsterlingen. À l’origine de l’Histoire de la folie
Judith REVEL : Foucault, « signe d’un nom propre » ?
Michel Foucault, Œuvres
Martin RUEFF et Frédéric GROS : « L’œuvre, cet îlot, fragile mais tenace »
Entretien réalisé par Françoise BALIBAR, Marielle MACÉ et Philippe ROGERMartin RUEFF : De Benjamin à Foucault. Allumer la mèche
Antipode special supplement on the work of Neil Smith – open access online and in paperback.
Antipode has published a special supplement dedicated to the late Neil Smith, available open access from the journal’s parallel site and also in paperback edition. In line with Smith’s broad interests the materials explore a wide range of substantive issues and include fundamental analyses to understand the evolution, impact and future potentialities of his work. Besides the strictly theoretical and political aspects, some of the pieces contextualize Smith’s contributions from a more personal perspective, for instance his relation with Harvey or his work with and influence on students. Some of the chapters overlap with the collection that Icaria will publish in Spanish soon.
10 Talking Points towards a general theory of Trump – Progress in Political Economy
On Monday 6 February 2017, the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney convened a postgraduate workshop with Paul Mason – British journalist, broadcaster, and author of Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future. The workshop was titled ‘Towards A General Theory of Trump’, and the lively and critical debates therein focused on various questions thrown up by the ascension of Trump to the Oval Office. To provoke further discussion and reflection on these critical questions, we are publishing ten talking points from the workshop’s participants, which are grouped thematically. A response by Paul Mason will soon follow.
From Christopher Watkins – a series of useful posts on research strategies and writing, designed for undergraduate, Masters and PhD students, but likely to be of interest beyond that too.
In this series I share some of the research hacks I have picked up and developed over my years of academic research, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.
Research Hacks #1: Research Audit
For students who want to work faster, smarter and more effectively
Research Hacks #2: Three important questions to ask before you choose a new research project
For students who want to work faster, smarter and more effectively
Research Hacks #3: Help! I can’t settle on a research project
For students who want to work faster, smarter and more effectively
There are several posts from Progressive Geographies about writing and publishing, and a lot more links, archived here.
Update: Chris’s fourth Research Hack is available here; the fifth here; and the sixth here. The rest are available here.
Elisabetta Basso is one of the key scholars of the very early Foucault, so this should be good. There was a very interesting documentary study of this visit that she co-edited a couple of years ago – http://editions.ehess.fr/ouvrages/ouvrage/foucault-a-muensterlingen/
Elisabetta Basso, Complicités et ambivalences de la psychiatrie, Münsterlingen et le carnaval des fous de 1954, Médecine/Sciences (Paris), Volume 33, Number 1, Janvier 2017
DOI: 10.1051/medsci/20173301019
Complicities and ambivalences of psychiatry: Münsterlingen and the 1954 feast of fools
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En mars 1954, Michel Foucault visite l’asile de Münsterlingen, dans le canton de Thurgovie, sur la rive suisse du lac de Constance. Lieu d’activité de psychiatres bien connus, notamment Hermann Rorschach, Münsterlingen est devenu célèbre dans l’histoire de la psychiatrie surtout grâce au travail de Roland Kuhn, qui fut actif à l’asile de 1939 à 1979. Grand spécialiste du test psychodiagnostique de Rorschach et découvreur au début des années 1950 du premier médicament antidépresseur, Kuhn fut également très proche de Ludwig Binswanger, dont il accueille favorablement l’approche anthropologique de la maladie mentale. C’est précisément pour rencontrer Kuhn et Binswanger que le jeune Foucault se rend en Suisse, à une époque où…
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After Environment and Planning C’s relaunch as Politics and Space, now Environment and Planning B has a new subtitle. Read Mike Batty’s editorial on the change here.
The right to have visiting rights– The story of Seyla Benhabib and her visit to the UK.
There’s a small but telling irony behind an important lecture at Cambridge tomorrow evening (Monday, 13 February) on migrants, refugees, and “the right to have rights.” The lecturer, the Yale political philosopher Seyla Benhabib, a visiting professor this term at the university’s Centre for Gender Studies, has lectured in England several times before. In 2002 she delivered Cambridge’s Seeley Lectures on the theme, “Citizens, Residents, and Aliens.”
Yet, this year, the British consulate in New York, operating under rules instituted by former Home Secretary Theresa May, made Benhabib’s visa-application process so Kafkaesque and expensive that the process succeeded in making the United Kingdom look like a failed state fronting for a band of mercenaries.
In the many posts on this site on writing and publishing, I’ve sometimes mentioned the name of Jo VanEvery, whose blog/website is a very valuable resource. She now has a short e-book available, A Scholarly Writing Guide – go here to see online retailers that stock it. It’s very cheap, short and offers good advice.
Getting stuck is a normal part of the writing process, even for experienced writers. My aim in publishing this Short Guide is to help you generate new writing projects, keep your writing projects moving forward, and ensure that your writing process results in publications. Designed so you can refer to it whenever you get stuck, this Short Guide breaks down the scholarly writing process into stages and provides both a description of that stage and writing prompts to help you get unstuck.
Adam Kotsko reflects on work, productivity and overwork in a post entitled ‘Workohol‘ at An und für sich.
This resonated with me given the multiple projects I have running in parallel at the moment. Almost all of these are books – authored or edited. There is an article in development, but I see that very much as an outline of a book project. I’ve been debating writing a post on why I prioritise books over articles, even in the era of research assessment we live and work in. I’ve been holding back on writing that because it risks being read as something written from a position of privilege, but there are perhaps some more general issues which might be of wider interest.
