Remigiusz Ryziński discusses his book Foucault w Warszawie, an account of the short period Foucault spent in Poland in the late 1950s – between his time in Uppsala and Warsaw. While the interview is in Polish, machine translation seems to give a good gist.
The book sounds fascinating, as it has used previously unaccessed archive sources. Hopefully some publishers are exploring translation rights. Thanks to James Tyner for the link.
Marcus Doel’s book Geographies of Violence: Killing Time, Killing Space is now published. This is the third book to appear in the Society and Space book series I edit with Sage.
We experience violence all our lives, from that very first scream of birth. It has been industrialized and domesticated. Our culture has not become totally accustomed to violence, but accustomed enough. Perhaps more than enough.
Geographies of Violence is a critical human geography of the history of violence, from Ancient Rome and Enlightened wars through to natural disasters, animal slaughter, and genocide. Written with incredible insight and flair, this is a thought-provoking text for human geography students and researchers alike
The other books published in the series so far are Dan Bulley’s Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces of Hospitality in International Politics and Francisco R. Klauser’s Surveillance and Space. Other books in the series are under contract or review. If you’re interested in the series, please contact me.
These look useful – free planners and guides for writing, planning and collaboration
Some good advice from Raul Pacheco-Vega on ‘Narrowing the research thesis topic’.
Today I begin work on the revisions for Shakespearean Territories. At the end of this work – in about three weeks’ time – I’m off to Provence for a week of cycling, including Mont Ventoux.
News of the death of Anne Buttimer, with an open access link to the chapter on her work from Key Thinkers on Space and Place by Tom Mels.
A message from Niamh Moore-Cherry, President of the Geographical Society of Ireland:
“It is with sadness that I am letting you know that Prof Anne Buttimer died this morning, July 15. She had been receiving treatment over the last few months in St Vincent’s hospital Dublin but passed away at home. I was privileged to have been able to visit her yesterday to give her the UCC alumni award 2016 that was received on her behalf at the Conference of Irish Geographers this year.
Her legacy in Ireland and beyond will be longlasting. A service will be held at Belfield Church, UCD before she is brought home to Cork for her Funeral Mass and burial. Details will be announced.
May she rest in peace.”
In memory of Prof Buttimer (1938-2017) here is a copy of the chapter about her life and work from ‘Key Thinkers on Space and Place’ (Sage…
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‘Edward Said’s ideas about power and identity still resonate today’ – CBC radio interview from 1993.
Edward Said is considered to have been one of the world’s most eminent cultural and literary critics. A Palestinian Christian Arab who moved to the United States when he was 17 years old, his most famous work is Orientalism, which established his international reputation in 1978. In that book, Said explored the West’s attitude towards Islam and the East, describing “a web of racism, cultural stereotypes, and dehumanizing ideology.” In his provocative 1993 book Culture and Imperialism, he took the idea further, arguing that the justification for British imperialism was embedded in the cultural imagination of the West and exemplified in the work of novelists including Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling.
Eleanor Wachtel spoke to Edward Said in 1993, after the publication of Culture and Imperialism. He had been diagnosed with leukemia the year before, which he said spurred him to speak out more. Said died in 2003 at the age of 67.
Thanks to dmf for the link.
Two volumes of the Penguin Freud library, issue 12 of the Carceral Notebooks; the most recently published Derrida seminar, Théorie et pratique; Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia and a second-hand copy of Didier Eribon’s Michel Foucault et ses contemporains. The Latour was pre-ordered in recompense for review work, Bernard Harcourt kindly sent the copy of the Carceral Notebooks, which is in large part on Foucault and the GIP, and I found the Derrida in a Paris bookstore. The others were picked up second-hand.
Eyal Weizman, ‘Vertical Apartheid in Israel-Palestine‘ a new preface (open access) to the re-edition of his classic Hollow Land.
Christopher Watkin’s Research hack #21: One to-do list to rule them all
Another useful post in this series.
