Three books linked to Michel Foucault’s collaborative work with CERFI; Gastón Gordillo’s Rubble (see my interview with Gastón at societyandspace.com); Karen Piper’s The Price of Thirst; a first edition of Henri Lefebvre’s study of the Pyrenees, and the new issues of Society and Space, Geographica Helvetica, and the British Academy Review.
A new review at the Society and Space open site.
A new commentary on the Society and Space open site – this time on the events in Ferguson, Missouri.
The Journal of Genocide Research has a theme issue on the Nigerian Biafra war – twelve papers on the topic.
On Friday 31 October Trevor Paglen, the well-known artist, photographer and geographer will be in conversation with Stephen Graham. This is the first of Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape public lectures for 2014-15. This event is being organised in collaboration with Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art where Trevor has an upcoming show
Full details are here: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/apl/news/events/public-lectures/
For more on trevor’s work, see http://www.paglen.com
This will be popular so please register soon at the above page to confirm your place!
The Birth of Territory was published one year ago. In that time it’s been reviewed in six journals, sold enough to suggest it will become my best-selling book, been the object of two ‘author meets critics’ sessions, and won two awards – the 2013 Association of American Geographers Meridian award, and joint winner of the inaugural book award from the journal Global Discourse.
Two review sections are forthcoming – in Political Geography (resulting from the AAG ‘author meets critics’) and Dialogues in Human Geography. The Global Discourse award will lead to a discussion of the book in its pages; and hopefully the contributions from the RGS-IBG session will be published.
Links to all the reviews and much more are on this page.
These are interesting, and work as a nice complement to the previous post on presenting and answering questions.
David Chalmers has, with the help of some crowdsourcing, put together a list of “guidelines for respectful, constructive, and inclusive philosophical discussion.” They are “intended primarily for oral philosophical discussion in formal settings: colloquia, conferences, seminars, classes, and so on.”
It is a work in progress, and suggestions and comments are welcome.
Some excellent advice on speaking at conferences and workshops.
There have been many fine papers at the SEP-FEP conference this year. In this post I thought I would distill some of the paper-delivering ‘best practice’ from the past three days and combine it with other advice I have been given and picked up over the years. These reflections are a personal digest of what I have seen done well, and I’m sure that others would come up with a very different list. There is more than one way to skin this particular cat.
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A pile of books received. Deborah Cowen’s The Deadly Life of Logistics (from the publisher); Andy Doolen’s Territories of Empire (which I endorsed); Ben Anderson’s Encountering Affect and Boyd & Linehan’s Ordnance (in recompense for Ashgate review work); L’Herne’s 2011 volume on Foucault; and the new issues of Area and Radical Philosophy.
A commentary on Singapore at the Society and Space open site.
