A four part discussion of the notion of territorial integrity by Jamie Scudder can be found here (and follow the links at the end of each part). It makes quite a bit of use of my Terror and Territory and some of the articles I wrote in the run-up to that book.
This is part of the Exploring Geopolitics website. I did interviews with the site and there is a lot of interesting material there.
Update 2025: The above link is dead, but the whole piece appears to be here.
Interesting piece here by Rory Rowan. A couple of excerpts:-
if these protests have rinsed the smile from Cameron’s face and applied the defibrillator of dissensus to the heart of British democracy they also raise questions about the strategies of protest adequate to a police regime reared on football hooliganism and ‘event management’…
Part of the problem of approaching police kettling is that the phenomenon has not been fully understood. Although it may at first seem the grossest form of numbskull territorialisation it is in-fact a more complex spatial strategy that works precisely within the same logic of concentration and spectacle as symbolic protest. It is important therefore to unpick the logic of the kettle in relation to symbolic protest…
I mentioned a few months ago that a new translation of von Uexküll’s A Foray into the World of Animals was coming out. Details of the translation here.
There are a range of reactions now that it’s available – here (via Charles Wolfe on APPS, who notes he is doing a review for NDPR), here and here.
News that future marches may be banned (probably the first and last time I will link to The Telegraph). But as John Protevi notes, there are some unpleasant overtones here.
A letter from Middlesex staff and students, which mainstream media have refused to publish.
Alex at Experimental Geographies has a roundup here.
And finally a post on having no confidence in the NUS leadership, here.
I posted details of these two conferences before.
The Political Life of Things (3 Dec, Imperial War Museum, London) – sound archive here, including Jane Bennett and many others
Vertical Geographies, Royal Holloway, London, 8 December 2010, including Stephen Graham, here
Thanks to Martin and Chris for the links.
This is the BBC interview with Jody McIntyre that has produced such anger.
Lots of people complained. The BBC has apparently responded – details here; another reply here. China Mieville responds here.
The Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers has issued the following statement which they have asked me to pass on…
The committee of the Social and Cultural Geography Research Group (RGS-IBG) would like to express their personal support for the geographers and other students who have sought to open up creative spaces to challenge the inevitability of such rapid and deep public spending cuts in higher education. Our position is that creative, innovative thinking is critical to social and ecological justice, and the stripping away of the intellectual capacity of higher education, through the removal of public funding for teaching and its replacement with a market for students and for knowledge, is detrimental to the achievement of more equitable ways of thinking and living.
‘To illustrate the importance of knowledge sharing, I would like to tell you a little lesson in economics: I have a block of butter, and you have three Euros. If we proceed to do a transaction, you will, in the end, have a block of butter, and I will have three Euros. We are dealing with a zero sum game: nothing happens from this exchange. But in the exchange of knowledge, during teaching, the game is not one of zero sum as more parties profit from the exchange: if you know a theorem and teach it to me, at the end of the exchange, we both know it. In this knowledge exchange there is no equilibrium at all, but a terrific growth which economics does not know. Teachings are the bearers of an unbelievable treasure knowledge which multiplies and is the treasure of all humanity’. (Michel Serres)
<http://www.ceras-projet.org/index.php?id=1541> .Our thanks to Angela Last <http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/> for the quote and translation. We welcome postings of further links and comments.
Reposted from here.
March 2011 sees the launch issue of the journal Dialogues in Human Geography. I was sceptical of the need for yet another disciplinary-specific journal, but the editors do seem to be trying to do something different, and I’m involved in a couple of the early issues.
The purpose of this post is to say you can sign up for three years worth of free access here.
Bradley L. Garrett offers some interesting, useful, and sometimes funny, advice here.
