Last month we launched a symposium on Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann's forthcoming Antipode paper, 'Climate Leviathan'. The forum was structured like this: we made their paper open access; solicited...
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Symposium on Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann's 'Climate Leviathan' – Authors' reply
Intervention – The London Olympics: Urban Geopolitics
by Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick As the London Olympics 2012 draw to a final close and the city returns to its quotidian routine it is perhaps time to analyse some of the long-term...
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Symposium on Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann's 'Climate Leviathan'
***Comments now closed; Joel and Geoff's reply is available here. Thanks to all who contributed.*** A 'symposium', of course, is a party - 'a convivial meeting for drinking, conversation, and...
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Video abstract – Kelvin Mason and Mark Whitehead talk about 'Transition urbanism and the contested politics of ethical place making'
How to prepare for a 'carbon constrained', 'energy lean' world? How to simultaneously enhance systems of care for distant places/others and intensify regimes of (re)localisation in a world of...
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'This is about our humanity' redux
Those who read Punam Khosla’s first post, ‘This is about our humanity’, should find this important report from the Real News Network interesting. In the video below, ‘Egyptian women demand...
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Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street and anti-Zionism
by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York From the beginning of OWS, the issue of Palestine has been contentious, and commentators and occupiers have excluded it preemptively and as it emerged....
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