Progressive Geographies

The Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities hosted a panel discussion on The University and its Worlds with Achille Mbembe, Judith Butler, Wendy Brown and David Theo Goldberg on 26 May 2016 at the University of the Western Cape.

The Past & Present reading group at the University of Sydney has just completed reading Jason W. Moore’s major new book Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital (Verso, 2015). The book provided very fertile ground for lively and critical discussions on capitalism, ecology, value, method, ontology, politics, history, space and much more. To reflect the richness of the discussions, we are publishing a collective review of the book, in the form of 10 talking points contributed by members of the reading group.

10 Talking Points from Jason W. Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life

Update: McKenzie Wark discusses Moore’s work here – The Capitalocene

Cynthia Weber’s Groningen lecture on Queer IR, which links to her book Queer International Relations: Sovereignty, Sexuality and the Will to Knowledge, out earlier this year with Oxford University Press.

There is also a symposium on the book beginning at The Disorder of Things. Initial posts from Cindy and Joan Cocks.

Gregynog Ideas Lab VI Summer School 

We are delighted to be able to announce that the Gregynog Ideas Lab VI will take place from 10 – 15 July 2017 in Newtown, Wales, UK. Set up in 2012, the Gregynog Ideas Lab is a unique opportunity for graduate students and academics working in international politics from a range of critical, postcolonial, feminist, post-structural and psychoanalytic traditions to re-examine their own work and meet new people in an open space for thinking and generating new ideas. It offers guest professor seminars, round table discussions, methodology workshops, artist talks and one-to-one tutorials with the guest professors. For more information, please see the documents attached.

Provisionally, our guest professors for 2017 are: Andrew Davison (Vassar), Jenny Edkins (Aberystwyth), Tom Lundborg (Swedish Institute of International Affairs), Himadeep Muppidi (Vassar), Sam Okoth Opondo (Vassar), Michael J Shapiro (Hawaii), Erzsebet Strausz (Warwick), Rob Walker (Victoria) and Andreja Zevnik (Manchester).

There is a reduced rate for bookings received before 31 January.

For more information about the Ideas Lab, visit our blog at http://gregynog.blogspot.co.uk/ , join our facebook group at  https://www.facebook.com/groups/675435315871900/  or email the organisers, Andreja Zevnik and Erzsebet Strausz on gregynogideaslab@gmail.com

If you would like to hear more about what it is like to attend the summer school from a participant’s point of view please free to email Muriel at muriel.bruttin@unil.ch, who would be happy to share her experience.

I’ve updated the list of my forthcoming publications and added a few pre-prints which are available to download. These include my article on Foucault and Shakespeare, an encyclopaedia entry on the relation between territory and the urban, and some older pieces on terricide, Shakespeare, and Foucault and geometrics.

For already published work, much of which is available to download on this site, there are separate pages for articles and chapters, books, interviews, audio and video, and reading lists.

A number of mainly recently published books from Polity, in recompense for review work.