Progressive Geographies

A bit of Internet sleuthing turns up the fact that finally Foucault’s book Le Desordre des familles, lettres de cachet, with Arlette Farge, originally published in 1982, is being translated into English.

Nancy Luxon, a professor of political science at the University of Minnesota, is listing it on her CV with a publication date of 2015.

I wrote about this a few years ago as having some potential parallels to the so-called National Security Letters (NSLs) which are in the news again regarding the NSA.

I found this out because I am looking for a translation project from French. Any other interesting candidates?

At Verso’s blog, news of the passing of Marshall Berman. See also Crooked Timber.

New book reviews for September:

David Correia (University of New Mexico) on Fiona Mackenzie’s Places of Possibility: Property, Nature, and Community Land Ownership;

Jill Williams (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa) on Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis and Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention;

Katrinka Somdahl-Sands (Rowan University) on Ben Anderson and Paul Harrison’s Taking-Place: Non-Representational Theories and Geography;

Filip Stabrowski (Hunter College, CUNY) on Joseph Varga’s Hell’s Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space: Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914;

Christoph Scheuplein (University of Münster) on Felix Wiegand’s David Harveys urbane Politische Ökonomie: Ausgrabungen der Zukunft marxistischer Stadtforschung; and

Tom Slater (University of Edinburgh) on Imogen Tyler’s Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain.

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