Progressive Geographies

David Harvey’s Seventeen Contradictions reviewed at the Society and Space open site.

1. Tips for finishing a PhD from The Guardian
2. Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre?
3. Where to start with reading Peter Sloterdijk?
4. Foucault’s Collaborative Projects
5. ‘Hellenistic Ethics from Nietzsche to Foucault’ – Warwick, 25-27 September 2014
6. The Birth of Territory – author meets critics session
7. Laleh Khalili – A Habit of Destruction
8. Neoliberalism and/as Terror: Critical Studies on Terrorism Annual Conference 2014
9. Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 12
10. Further details of Harvard events on Baghdad and Lefebvre now available

My paper “The Geopolitics of Boko Haram and Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror'” is now forthcoming in The Geographical Journal. Many thanks to the editor Klaus Dodds for encouraging its submission and overseeing the referee process. Two helpful referee reports improved the paper considerably.

While undertaking the research that went into this article I produced an annotated bibliography of writings on Boko Haram, which can be found here.

Just finished, and survived, the ‘author meets critics’ session on The Birth of Territory at the Royal Geographical Society annual conference. Some very thoughtful and generous engagements and critiques from Stephen Legg, Briony McDonagh, Michael Heffernan, and James Sidaway. Saskia Sassen unfortunately was not able to be there. I tried to address their comments and some very good questions from the floor in my responses, though much more could be said.

Lots to think about – for the moment I’m grateful it happened and pleased it is over. Thanks to Steve for organising, the co-panelists for their reading and engagement, and the great audience turnout – the room was packed.

I’ll be speaking at two events at Harvard next month. Details of the conference “Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad: From Revolution through the Gulf War and Beyond” are available here; and of the book launch event for Henri Lefebvre’s Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, “Architectural Imagination After May ’68: Lukasz Stanek in conversation with Neil Brenner, Eve Blau, Michael Hays, Tom Conley, and Stuart Elden” here.