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...
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Intervention Symposium – “Did We Accomplish the Revolution in Geographic Thought?”
Intervention – “Water is Life and Life is Sovereignty: Context and Considerations for Critical Geographers”
Water is Life and Life is Sovereignty: Context and Considerations for Critical Geographers Andrew Curley University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [email protected] On 4 December 2016, the...
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Intervention – “Where Were the Non-Heterosexual Young Men? The Challenges and Need for Further Research on Participant Recruitment Methods for Qualitative Research”
by Blake Hawkins, University of British Columbia, [email protected] Introduction From September 2015 to January 2016, I lived in Prince George, Canada, to undertake fieldwork for my...
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Intervention – “Intersectional Contours of Loss and Resistance: Mapping Bay Area Gentrification”
Erin McElroy Doctoral Candidate, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz Director, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project,...
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“Sur les Toits”: A Symposium on the Prison Protests in Early 1970s France
Introduction: The Making Visible of Carceral Politics Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick This symposium contains a rich collection of contributions based on the screening of the French...
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Intervention – “F**k the Cupcake Revolution! David Cameron, Samuel Smiles, and the Geographies of Neo-Victorian Thrift”
Alison Hulme https://commoditytactics.wordpress.com/ The homemade poster was clearly visible in the window of a first floor flat as I sat on the top deck of the 185 bus that was jerking its...
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Intervention – “Taxing Sugar, Sweetening Inequality: Disrupting George Osborne’s ‘Sugar Tax’ with the Agential Properties of Sugar Itself”
Louise MacAllister, Geography, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter Predictions for the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne’s Spring 2016 Budget were of tax...
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Intervention – “Reclaiming the ‘Liveable City’ as Normative Reference Point: Against Totalising Aspirational Political Discourses”
Steffen Wetzstein (Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, Universität Erfurt) This short commentary takes issue with the rise of totalising aspirational political discourses in urban politics and...
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Intervention – “Towards a Metaphilosophy of the Urban” by Andy Merrifield
I suspect I’m not the only one thrilled by the prospect of seeing Henri Lefebvre’s great philosophical tract, Métaphilosophie, from half-a-century ago, finally make it into English. Thanks to...
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Intervention – "Reclaiming Hope Within the Geopolitics of Economic Bullying: The Case of SYRIZA and Post-Referendum Greece"
by Maria Pentaraki, Queen's University Belfast ([email protected]), and Janet Speake, Liverpool Hope University ([email protected]) “When the ‘OXI-NO’ vote in the referendum became a...
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