Progressive Geographies

As September draws to a close we have four new book reviews (one of which considers a non-English-language title – please do get in touch if you’d like to review a book from beyond the Anglophone world):

Nuria Benach (Universitat de Barcelona) on David Featherstone and Joe Painter’s Spatial Politics: Essays For Doreen Massey;

Glyn Williams (University of Sheffield) on Akhil Gupta’s Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India;

Sam Halvorsen (University College London) on Walter Nicholls, Byron Miller and Justin Beaumont’s Spaces of Contention: Spatialities and Social Movements; and

Heide Gerstenberger (Universität Bremen) on Bernd Belina’s Raum.

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Nuria works in the Departament de Geografia Humana at the Universitat de Barcelona and is the co-editor, with Abel Albet, of Doreen Massey: Un sentido global del lugar (Icaria, 2012).

Glyn is a senior lecturer in Sheffield’s Department of Town and Regional Planning…

Gary S. Becker, François Ewald & Bernard E. Harcourt, Becker and Foucault on Crime and Punishment’: A Conversation with Gary Becker, François Ewald, and Bernard Harcourt: The Second Session (Coase- Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Working Paper No.654, 2013

[Editor: Update 15 March 2026. I have updated the links below to the archived pages held on The Wayback Machine as well as a page still available online]

This is an edited transcript of a conversation held at The University of Chicago on May 15, 2013, in Foster Hall 505, the seminar room of the Committee on Social Thought. The video recording of the open seminar can be viewed on-line at [this link]. It represents a continuation of a conversation begun the year before, titled “Becker on Ewald on Foucault on Becker”: American Neoliberalism & Michel Foucault’s 1979 Birth of Biopolitics Lectures. That first session can be viewed on-line…