Progressive Geographies

He notes his schedule here. He first goes out to Corner Brook, near Gros Morne National Park, which is said to be one of most beautiful places in Canada (and for you Canadians, ipso facto, in the world). Next Thursday he takes up the prestigious George Storey lecture, which the Dean of Arts will introduce. Then on Friday, we’ll switch up our usual pub-based discussion series (where we usually look at specific papers and chapters in the history of philosophy) and have Stuart go over his project on Shakespearean territories as part of our public lecture series–at the Peter Easton Pub. (For those in St. John’s, it’s become our favorite dive bar–great room in the back and cheap drinks in the front. We meet there just about each week for the “Jockey Club.”) Then we’ll do a reception for him at my place downtown. We’ll try to send him…

Today we’ve posted reviews by Ghent University’s Omar Jabary Salamanca and the University of Minnesota’s Basil Mahayni. Omar reviews Eyal Weizman’s The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza, Basil reviews Bassam Haddad’s Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience, and both are available here.

All Antipode book reviews are now freely available online – not only those on AntipodeFoundation.org but also our back catalogue in Wiley Online Library. From January 2013 we no longer publish new book reviews in the journal: all now appear exclusively on AntipodeFoundation.org. This move allows us to feature not only more reviews, but also more substantive reviews (in the style, say, of the London Review of Books), more quickly. It will, we hope, transform the book reviews section into a more capacious ‘Book reviews, etc.’ section, that may now feature, in addition…

Our friends and colleagues over at the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies (which, you will recall, is a fully open access, student-and-junior-faculty-run critical IR journal) have just issued two calls: one for new members of the Editorial Team, and another for papers to fill Issue 7 on the theme of ‘Modelling Capitalism’.

Prospective Editorial Team members can find full details here. The positions are suitable for early-career lecturers, postdoctoral researchers, or PhD candidates currently in the first two years of their study and will be considered on a rolling basis. Meanwhile, the blurb for Issue 7 (deadline for submissions: 1 August 2013) is as follows:

Frequently held in suspicion by critical thinkers, modelling and simulation technologies are nonetheless more and more integral to how the world works, utilised by international bodies, governments, financial firms, and large corporations. This special issue wishes to approach in a synoptic fashion some of big themes raised…