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[Re]Form: New Investigations in Urban Form (video)
Recordings of a recent multidisciplinary symposium on urbanization at Harvard GSD, including amongst others papers by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Colin McFarlane and Kees Christiaanse. There is an interesting exchange between Aureli and Neil Brenner at the end of panel 1, dealing with the history of the urban grid vis-à-vis capitalist development, and the political implications…
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Interview with Stefan Kipfer – Gramsci as Geographer
Interview with Stefan Kipfer – Gramsci as Geographer in Historical Materialism (open access). Some interesting discussion of his relation to Lefebvre, among other themes. A French version of this interview was originally published at http://revueperiode.net/gramsci-geographe-entretien-avec-stefan-kipfer/ Your research interests include a recurrent focus on space, specifically urban questions as well as the spatial organization of relations…
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New Militant Cinema | Giancarlo Buonfino’s Totem
In 1968 Giancarlo Buonfino and others created the ‘New Militant Cinema’ Collective in the wake of the explosion of workers’ and students’ struggles in Italy. As far as I know the only film Buonfino and the collective made was Totem (1969) — the original version, embedded below, is available on YouTube. It took a whole…
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Jean-Pierre Garnier en Madrid y Valladolid
El sociólogo Jean-Pierre Garnier nos visita una vez más para hablar sobre urbanismo, conflicto social y lucha de clases. El jueves estará en en la sede de FUHEM en Madrid, en un debate titulado ‘Gentrificación: un concepto inadecuado’ (invitación aquí, habrá retransmisión en streaming), con motivo de la publicación del último número de la revista…
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Áreas urbanas y escasez de recursos
El grupo Re-Hab celebra mañana 7 de junio un nuevo encuentro para presentar y discutir los resultados de su investigación, en torno al tema ‘Áreas urbanas y escasez de recursos’. Les dejo el programa del evento.
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Imperialism: Is it a Relevant Concept?
David Harvey, Duncan Foley, Nancy Fraser and Prabhat Patnaik discussed the contemporary relevance of the concept of ‘Imperialism’ in an event held at the The New School’s Center for Public Scholarship a couple of weeks ago: In the age of financial globalization of the last few decades, we have seen elites in many countries of…
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Martin Wagner: arquitectura, territorio y capitalismo
La revista Scripta Nova acaba de publicar el artículo ‘Aporías de una ideología urbanística: arquitectura, territorio y capitalismo en el trabajo de Martin Wagner’ (acceso libre); se trata de uno de los trabajos derivados de la investigación de su archivo personal en Harvard, desarrollado el año pasado durante una estancia en el GSD (más información…
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A new issue and a video abstract – “Shared Social License: Mining and Conservation in the Peruvian Andes”
Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org: It seems everything is happening early here in the UK, with the PM calling a general election while the rest of us enjoy a remarkably summer-y spring, so at Antipode HQ we decided to publish volume 49, number 3 – June’s issue – in late April. Why wait, when the papers are this good…? Landscape…
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Spatial Justice and Indigenous Rights
Originally posted on Path to the Possible: Just out: the latest issue of Justice Spatiale/Spatial Justice, guest edited by Béatrice Collignon and Irène Hirt, on Spatial Justice and Indigenous People. It is freely accessible (and fully bilingual) here: http://www.jssj.org. Contents: EDITORIAL Anniversary? Philippe GERVAIS-LAMBONY | Frédéric DUFAUX | Aurélie QUENTIN FOCUS 1. Claiming Space to…
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