Here the winner of the 2012/13 Graduate Student Scholarship, Teo Ballvé (Department of Geography, University of California Berkeley), discusses his doctoral research 'Territories of Life and Death...
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Graduate Student Scholarship 2012/13 – 'Territories of Life and Death on a Colombian Frontier'
Sewers and Sewerage Workers in India
by Lalit Batra, University of Minnesota In her much-publicized address to the joint session of the parliament the President of India, Pratibha Patil, recently declared her government’s intention to...
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Intervention – Kony 2012: Violence as evil, war as contest, intervention as benevolence
by Connor Cavanagh, The Nordic Africa Institute (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet), Uppsala, Sweden By now, you’ve seen or heard of the video. You’ve probably also read some of the debates (see, for...
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Geraldine Pratt to speak at QMUL on 'Temporary foreign workers and their children: (neo)liberal compromises and the violence of inclusion'
We're pleased to announce that Antipode author and Institute for the Geographies of Justice contributor Geraldine Pratt (UBC Geography) will be speaking at Queen Mary, University of London's School...
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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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This is about our humanity
by Punam Khosla, York University Reflecting on the ‘year of protest’ I am struck by the emphasis of many left commentators. A broad progressive consensus is that capitalist crisis and the...
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Police, protest, and spaces of power
by Rachel Brahinsky, University of California Berkeley In this season of global occupations, the geographies of police violence have been on my mind. As we begin to unveil this new blog, I plan on...
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