Progressive Geographies

The recording of Christian Parenti’s 2013 Antipode AAG lecture, ‘The Environmental State: Territoriality, Violence, and Value’, is now available online as a part of the Antipode Lecture Series.

Unfortunately we don’t have a recording of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s 2012 Antipode AAG lecture, ‘A Conversation With Gayatri Spivak’, but Prof. Spivak will be publishing a paper in the journal – ‘Scattered Speculations on Geography’ – later this year. Watch this space…

I’ve been asked to give the first Neil Smith Lecture at St Andrews (where Neil was a cherished alumnus, graduating with first class honours in 1977: he always spoke with immense affection of Joe Doherty), and I’m moved and delighted in equal measure.  Dan Clayton wrote to say that ‘we see this Lecture both as a fitting tribute to Neil’s considerable achievements, and as an opportunity to treat the great range and reach of his work and interests as a living critical legacy.’   That sets the bar about as high as it can go.  The lecture will be in the week beginning 11 November 2013, and I’m aiming for a much more developed version of “The natures of war”, riffing off Neil’s comments on the production of nature (amongst other things).  I promise to post some of my notes en route as the weeks go (or…

We’ve seven – seven! – new book reviews in our open access repository:

Seth Schindler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) on Ahmed et al.’s India’s New Economic Policy: A Critical Analysis;

Gerald Aiken (Durham University) on David Featherstone’s Solidarity: Hidden Histories and Geographies of Internationalism;

Malene Jacobsen (University of Kentucky) on Gregory Feldman’s The Migration Apparatus: Security, Labor, and Policymaking in the European Union;

Patrick Weir (University of Exeter) on Brad Evans’ Liberal Terror;

Soma Chatterjee (University of Toronto) on Harald Bauder’s Immigration Dialectic and Immigration and Settlement;

Kate Parizeau (University of Guelph) on Alex Loftus’ Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology; and

John Agnew (UCLA) on Farhana Sultana and Alex Loftus’ The Right to Water: Politics, Governance, and Social Struggles.

If you’ve an idea for our more capacious ‘Book reviews, etc.’ section – it now features, in addition to reviews of both…