Progressive Geographies

Half-day Workshop on Reading Capital

Thursday 11 February 2016

Time: 2.00pm – 6.00pm
Venue: Swedenborg Society, 20 Bloomsbury Way, London
Price: free

2015 was the 50th anniversary of the original publication of Reading Capital by Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar et al, a text that was to become a landmark in the history of both French thought and international Marxism. In this half-day workshop, we celebrate this anniversary by returning to two central philosophical themes of the book: Causality: Structure and Immanence and Time: Structure and History.

Speakers:
Etienne Balibar
Katja Diefenbach
Peter Hallward
Peter Osborne
Stefano Pippa

Join the Centre of Research in Modern European Philosophy for a workshop on Reading Capital.

For further information about this event: Contact: Eric-John Russell

10 Critical Theory books that came out in January – Wahnich, Allen, Mitchell, Dean & Villadsen, Danchev, Malm, Gasche, etc.

News of Fiona McConnell’s forthcoming book on Tibet’s government in exile.

New issue of Society and Space now online.

Manifeste pour une géographie environnementale: Géographie, écologie et politique – now out with Presses de Sciences Po, edited by Denis Chartier and Estienne Rodary. Simon Batterbury is one of the Anglophone contributors, and sent me an English translation of the book’s blurb (original here):

French geography has always refused to address environmental issues in a truly political way. As environmental crises multiply, and facing the specter of eco-skepticism that haunts French political thought, geography can and must rebuild.

This Manifesto for environmental geography marks a collective will to overcome individualized practice and to question the epistemological place and the politics of geography confronted with environmental politics. It discusses the history of the discipline in its dealings with the politics of nature, develops international comparisons, especially with political ecology, and introduces the main areas of investigation for geography with a conceptual apparatus  renewed by the Anthropocene.

It shows that geographers must leave behind the remnants of their disciplinary past, to accept that their discipline is fundamentally transformed by environmental issues.  This is the only way for the discipline to remain scientifically and politically relevant in today’s world.

Contributors : Frédéric Alexandre • Aziz Ballouche • Simon P.J. Batterbury • Farid Benhammou • David Blanchon • Frédérique Blot • Sébastien Caillault • Pierre-Olivier Garcia • Emmanuèle Gautier • Pierre Gautreau • Alain Génin • Jérémy Grangé • Christophe Grenier • Baptiste Hautdidier • Christian A. Kull • Patrick Matagne • Kent Mathewson • Pierre Pech • Philippe Pelletier • Olivier Soubeyran • Jean-Marc Zaninetti.