The New York Times redraws borders in the Arabian peninsula

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The New York Times (via The Afternoon Map).

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Review of the ‘two Princes’

Geographer Nigel Clark reviews Graham Harman on, and in dialogue with, Bruno Latour – pdf is open access.

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Nigel Clark’s review of Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics and The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman at the LSE in the August 2013 issue of Contemporary Political Theory [PDF].

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Books received

books received 27 SeptTwo books for the Foucault project – a collection of pieces on the first volume of the History of Sexuality, and the only other volume of Les Vies Parallèles series Foucault initiated (the first was the Herculine Barbin memoir); David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital, Volume 2; Critchley & Webster’s The Hamlet Doctrine; Constantine Fasolt’s remarkable The Limits of History (newly in paperback); and the new issue of Transactions.

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My review of Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

144434997XMy review of Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy has now been published in Global Discourse (requires subscription). A limited number of downloads are available here. If that expires, please let me know if you’d like a copy.

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New reviews – Spatial Politics, Red Tape, Spaces of Contention, and Raum

Some new open access reviews from Antipode.

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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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Spatial PoliticsNuria 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).

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

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Three new forthcoming papers – tourist photography, residual China, and geologic life

Three new Society and Space papers available online.

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Of relations and rights : interview with Luce Irigaray

via Continental Philosophy.

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Is it worth writing textbooks?

David Beer reflects on his experience of writing a textbook and links to a discussion in the Times Higher Education.

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Banking across Boundaries reviewed

Review of Brett Christophers, Banking Across Boundaries, on the Society and Space open site.

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more on Critchley and Webster, The Hamlet Doctrine

The Verso blog has some more links.

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