Novara TV interview with David Harvey
David Harvey talks to Aaron Bastani on Novara TV about contemporary capitalism, crisis, social movements and his new book.
CFP RGS-IBG 2014 Geographies of Forced Eviction: Dispossession, Violence, Insecurity
Geographies of Forced Eviction: Dispossession, Violence, Insecurity Call for Papers: Royal Geographical Society with IBG Annual Conference, London, 27-29 August 2014. Katherine Brickell, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of … Continue reading
Inaugural Neil Smith Lecture: Derek Gregory, “The Natures of War”
The Inaugural Neil Smith Lecture at The Institute for Population, Well-being and Environment Research at the University of St Andrews will be delivered by Derek Gregory. Details below: Professor Derek Gregory FRSC … Continue reading
Landscape and Robert Macfarlane’s The Old Ways
“[…] ‘landscape’ is not something to be viewed and appraised from a distance, as if it were a panel in a frieze or a canvas in a frame. It is … Continue reading
Book Writing
“Wohnungslos muss nicht sein – zieht in leere Häuser ein!” “Krieg den Hütten, Paläste für alle!” “Lass kraake, lass knalle – Wir bleiben Alle!” -German squatter slogans (via Amantine, 2012) … Continue reading
Reclaiming the Precarious City
I’ve been so busy over the past couple of weeks with exam marking that I never got a chance to post details of a piece that I did for the … Continue reading
Book on the History of Squatting in Berlin
I’ve just been offered a contract to write a spatial history of squatting in Berlin for the RGS-IBG Book Series. I’m very excited and look forward to finishing the manuscript. … Continue reading
On the Autonomous City: Video
In March 2012, I was lucky enough to speak at KTH in Stockholm as part of a seminar series on “City Axioms” organized by the Institute of Social Anthropology at … Continue reading
Judith Butler: “New Thoughts on Solidarity”
Via Stuart Elden at Progressive Geographies – a video of Judith Butler’s plenary address to the American Academy of Religion entitled “New Thoughts on Solidarity.” The address explores the recent … Continue reading
Originally posted on cities@manchester:
via flickr by Marco Garofalo by Andy Merrifield, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Geography, University of Manchester “The form of a city changes quicker, alas, than the human…
Experimental Geographies 