Coping with Disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Québec, or, 25 Questions About the Murder of Lac-Mégantic by Liette Gilbert, York University On July 6, an unmanned 72-wagon train containing 7.2 million...
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Intervention – 'Coping with Disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Québec, or, 25 Questions About the Murder of Lac-Mégantic'
Intervention symposium – 'Reflections on the Events Surrounding Trayvon Martin'
Guest editor's introduction 'Home "Sick": Reflections on the Events Surrounding Trayvon Martin' by Priscilla McCutcheon, University of Connecticut “But this is something we going to have to learn...
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Intervention – “Your freedom smells like teargas!” Deconstructing Europe’s Critique of Turkey’s Policing of the 2013 Protests
Till F. Paasche, Geography Department, Soran University, Kurdish Region, Iraq During the summer of 2013 mass protests against the politics of Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdoğan disrupted the country...
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Intervention – 'Corporate Privacy and Environmental Review at Export Development Canada'
'Corporate Privacy and Environmental Review at Export Development Canada: How Billions are Transferred to Enbridge and TransCanada Without Substantive Disclosure' by Kimia Ghomeshi...
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Intervention – 'Encountering Paratheatrical Space' by Andy Merrifield
'Encountering Paratheatrical Space' Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Enter a strange room, any room you’ve never entered before. It feels empty somehow, no...
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What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding anyway? A response to Joel Wainwright (with apologies to Elvis Costello)
Last week we published a powerful intervention by Joel Wainwright, “A remarkable disconnect”: On violence, military research, and the AAG. 'A remarkable disconnect' are Eric Sheppard's words,...
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Intervention – '“A remarkable disconnect”: On violence, military research, and the AAG' by Joel Wainwright
Joel Wainwright - Ohio State University geographer, author of Geopiracy: Oaxaca, Militant Empiricism, and Geographical Thought (2012, Palgrave Macmillan), Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and...
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New paper – 'Non-Stop for Mandela: Practising Anti-Apartheid Solidarity in London in the 1980s'
Forthcoming in Antipode 46(1)*, and available online now, 'Practices of Solidarity: Opposing Apartheid in the Centre of London' by University of Leicester geographers Gavin Brown and Helen Yaffe...
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New paper – 'State Response to Contemporary Urban Movements in Turkey: A Critical Overview of State Entrepreneurialism and Authoritarian Interventions'
Hot on the heels of last month's intervention 'Defending Future Commons: The Gezi Experience' by Ozan Karaman, we're pleased to present Ayda Eraydin and Tuna Taşan-Kok's recently published paper...
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Intervention – 'At the Edge of the Metropolis: A Call to Expand Barrio Research' by Johana Londoño
Johana Londoño, University at Albany, State University of New York Last fall, students and I analyzed Pew Hispanic Center data on the recent Latino population surge in the southeast of the U.S. The...
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