By Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford, United Kingdom (Auckland Harbour View 09) [CC BY 2.0 (httpcreativecommons.orglicensesby2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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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Intervention – "A Perecian Attempt to Exhaust the Glasgow Subway"

A Perecian Attempt to Exhaust the Glasgow Subway by Jack Donaghy, Johanna Jokio, Anna Nienhaus, Dennis Rodgers and Evan Williams Urban Studies, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of...
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Intervention – "Land Occupations and Counter-insurgency in the Colombian Caribbean: Will History Repeat Itself?"

by Eloisa Berman-Arévalo, Department of Geography, UNC Chapel Hill ([email protected]) As the Colombian government and Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) come close to signing a final peace accord...
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Intervention – "Finding Hope Without Salvation in Mad Max: Fury Road"

Finding Hope Without Salvation in Mad Max: Fury Road by Corin de Freitas, University of British Columbia The recently released "Mad Max: Fury Road" follows the spectacular...
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Intervention – "Vernacular Values: Remembering Ivan Illich" by Andy Merrifield

by Andy Merrifield* I’ve been revisiting the great maverick radical Ivan Illich, who died in 2002, aged 76. Illich was an Austrian who had no real homeland, a Jew who became a Catholic, a Priest...
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Intervention – "Gay-Friendly or Homophobic? The Absence and Problems of Global Standards"

by Kath Browne (University of Brighton), Niharika Banerjea (University of Southern Indiana), Leela Bakshi and Nick McGlynn (University of Brighton) Introduction The place of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual...
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Intervention – “Future Shock” by Andy Merrifield

Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Speculating on the future, especially on the political future—and especially especially on a Left political future—is...
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Intervention – “Re-enacting Israel’s Counter-terror Omnipotence: An Opening”

by Rhys Machold, Balsillie School of International Affairs Following the recent attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store in Paris, a political intervention...
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