Author: asevillab
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Intervention Symposium – “Did We Accomplish the Revolution in Geographic Thought?”
Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org: 44 years ago we published David Harvey’s essay “Revolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary Theory in Geography and the Problem of Ghetto Formation”. Taking geographers to task, demanding some serious self-criticism, it was subject to its fair share of discussion and debate then, has re-appeared in a few venues over the years (from Harvey’s own…
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David Harvey and Robert Brenner discuss Trump, finance and the end of capitalism
Here is the video of the debate between David Harvey and Robert Brenner last week at the CUNY Graduate Center, with the title ‘What now? The roots of the economic crisis and the way forward’. Don’t miss the discussion about Trump, especially in the last third of the footage.
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Henri Lefebvre, Marxist Thought and the City published and 30% discount code
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies: Henri Lefebvre, Marxist Thought and the City, translated by Robert Bonnano and with a brief preface by me has been published by University of Minnesota Press. It is available in cloth and paperback editions, and can be ordered with a 30% discount code – details in the flyer (valid until 1 March 2017).…
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Reclaiming the Commons | Critical art and translocality
Next week I will join a number of artists, activists and scholars at Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst to participate in the symposium ‘How critique becomes translocal – Reclaiming the commons’. Here is the presentation of the event: In 2014, Mexican artist Teresa Margolles presented her installation La Búsqueda at Migrosmuseum in Zurich. The…
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urbanHist | European Joint Doctorate Programme – Call for Applications
In the context of EU funded Joint PhD programs, a group of institutions from Germany, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden offer 15 positions to conduct research on the history of European planning and urbanism during the 20th century. The fellowships are part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie program and provide a very attractive path in diverse research…
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Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion is now out with Allen Lane and Belknap Press, a monumental biography and historical contextualization of Marx’s thinking. Stedman Jones, author of the superb Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society and Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, is…
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Society and Space book series – first two volumes by Bulley and Klauser out soon
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies: Over the past several years I’ve been working with Sage on a Society and Space book series, which is linked to the Environment and Planning D: Society and Space journal (now published by Sage). There are several books under contract or in discussion, with the first two volumes due to be…
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Governing mobility through the EU | Society & Space Forum
The new Society and Space website launches a forum on ‘hotspot’ centers for the management of migrants and refugees in Italy and Greece, with a number of contributions coming soon. This coincides with a heated debate in Spain about CIEs, the so-called ‘foreigner internment centers’ (actually detention centers), especially in Madrid and Barcelona in the…
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