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Originally posted on Experimental Geographies: There is an absolutely fantastic piece by Peter Linebaugh over at Counterpunch in which he describes a new radical archiving initiative in conjunction with the May Day Rooms. The May Day Rooms is “a safe house for vulnerable archives and historical material linked to social movements, experimental culture, and marginalised…

Originally posted on cities@manchester: via flickr by jgarber by Andy Merrifield, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Geography, University of Manchester No matter how many times you read Walter Benjamin’s musings on Paris they never disappoint. They never sound worn; there are always new nuggets buried within, lurking between the lines, little sparkling gems you never expected to find,…

Originally posted on taCity: Montaigne Gallery, Shanghai Many years ago I coined the phrase Urban Subversion that began as an interest in parkour as a creative act of urban re-appropriation. It soon became apparent as I looked for additional ways in which people were interacting with the city in novel and innovate ways, there was a small,…

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org: Hard copies of the journal (yes, we still do those!) have been delivered this week. The first issue of Antipode‘s 45th volume contains 12 papers and a short essay from the winner of the 2012-13 Antipode Graduate Student Scholarship… Climate Leviathan – Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann (see also the symposium…

Originally posted on Experimental Geographies: I am organising a session at the forthcoming RGS/IBG annual conference in London (August 28-30, 2013). Details below: Radical Geography in the Interwar Period: Disciplinary Trajectories and Hidden Histories Sponsored by Historical Geography Research Group Organiser: Dr. Alex Vasudevan (School of Geography, University of Nottingham) This session builds on a…

Originally posted on cities@manchester: via flickr by luketelliott by Andy Merrifield, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester In talking about urban studies I can only talk from and for the perspective I know best: the critical urban tradition that developed out of Marxism in the 1970s, as pioneered by the…

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies: The ‘Thinking Urban Worlds’ workshop at Durham was held on Wednesday. A very interesting afternoon of discussion organised by Colin McFarlane with presentations by Andy Merrifield and Simon Marvin, and discussant comments from Gordon MacLeod along with my own paper. The event was recorded, so hopefully that will be available…

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies: Benidorm — a planned resort city on Spain’s coast between Alicante and Valencia — has long been a destination for tourists. I can’t say I’ve been there, but references to the city abound in Spain and in Spanish literature and culture since the 1970s. For example: the opening/intro sequence to each…

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies: I stumbled across this project by a group of Amsterdam University-based students of new media who are putting together videos and Henri Lefebvre’s remarks on rhythmanalysis. They write that: “Our videos employ main themes of Lefebvre’s book such as rhythm and capitalism, critique of everyday life, rhythm, sound and the city,…