Author: asevillab
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Saba Mahmood 2016 AAG Society and Space plenary lecture now online — Society and space
Professor Saba Mahmood (University of California, Berkeley) delivered the Society and Space plenary lecture at the Association of American Geographers meeting on March 31, 2016. A video of her excellent talk, titled “Secularism, Sovereignty, and Religious Difference: A Global Genealogy?”, is now available on our publisher Sage’s website. A written version will appear in an…
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Visualizing major ‘urban world’ metanarratives
Daniel Ibañez, a member of Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab, has produced a telling video for urbanNext, summarizing four major metageographical visions of the city, the urban and the world that animate contemporary discussion of world urbanization: the global-city network model, the urban-age discourse, Richard Florida’s spiky world of urban nodes of activity, and critical…
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Seminario ‘Áreas urbanas y cambio social’
El próximo 21 de junio se celebrará en la Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid el encuentro ‘Áreas urbanas y cambio social’, organizado por el grupo de investigación Re-Hab en desarrollo de uno más de sus proyectos. Puede encontrarse la información completa del evento aquí.
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New issue of URBAN | New Urban Languages: Rethinking Urban Ideology in Post-ideological Times
The journal URBAN, edited at the Town and Regional Planning Department of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, has published a new, double issue, including the contributions to the 2014 conference ‘New Urban Languages: Rethinking Urban Ideology in Post-ideological Times’. All the papers and materials are open access here.
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Léopold Lambert and Michael Woods’s keynotes from Warwick Political Spaces workshop (audio) — Progressive Geographies
Léopold Lambert and Michael Woods’s keynotes from Warwick Political Spaces workshop (audio) – via Warwick Political Geography. Update: a few images from the first of these lectures are here. a través de Léopold Lambert and Michael Woods’s keynotes from Warwick Political Spaces workshop (audio) — Progressive Geographies
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Fernando Roch, entrevistado por José Fariña
José Fariña incluye en su blog una reciente entrevista a Fernando Roch, digamos, con motivo de su 70 cumpleaños — como José, no creo que Fernando vaya a retirarse nunca: su energía crítica ni se crea ni se destruye, simplemente adoptará nuevas formas.
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Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece — Progressive Geographies
Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece (via Sociological Imagination). a través de Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Noam Chomsky about Greece — Progressive Geographies
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Harvey at Harvard | Valorization and municipalism
David Harvey visited the Harvard Graduate School of Design last week. As a Senior Loeb Fellow, he participated in a number of events, in what a colleague at the Urban Theory Lab here defined as ‘Harvey-palooza’ (!). Here is the video of his main talk on Monday. Most of the content will be familiar to…