A curation of articles, essays, book reviews and interviews on critical geographical concerns.
Foregrounds the constitutive role that various forms of cultural expression play in shaping the relationship between the social and the spatial. Provides a critical platform for investigating the nature of power, difference and oppression – how they are imagined and performed, opposed and subverted.
"The Quantocks" portrays not only in words but also through numerous clear diagrams (by the author) and superb photographs (by his daughter Jackie) the major features that have contributed to the landscape palimpsest and make the region both distinctive and interesting. To do that Peter has mastered the extant sources—including much ‘grey literature’—and woven together material from a wide range of disciplinary specialisms.
"Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra" is almost too many things -- a memoir, a biography, an ethnography of experimental jazz in Ghana. Through the lens of acoustemology -- “the agency of knowing the world through sound” (page 49) -- it traverses questions of art, class, nationhood, and cosmopolitan citizenship.
Mitchell’s “small” book "Heidegger Among the Sculptors" is like an Aleph, or a Monad, that within its few pages manages to open out onto the work of Heidegger in most original and unsuspecting ways. Mitchell’s book not only opens up Heidegger’s work, in as much as he illustrates how we can and should read him backwards, from the post-Turn work towards the early work, but opens up Heidegger’s work on worldhood, spatiality, embodiment and temporality.
Drawing together themes from "Bubbles", "Globes" (Globen) and the final volume "Foam" (Schäume), Sloterdijk offered, in presentation and text alike, a litany of spheres, of enclosures, domes, atmospheres, and dwellings, which in his conclusion he claimed as nothing less than an extension of Heidegger’s "Being and Time", worked over as "Being and Space". In this reflection we discuss several important themes emerging from his presentation.
Catherine constructs a story of social policy’s silence in this regard, partly through reflecting on her own researching career, one marked by substantial policy reports and multiple other contributions in this field. Depicting the multi-disciplinary fields of homelessness research as largely positivist and empirical endeavours (with notable exceptions), the key call here is for an epistemological rewriting of homelessness as felt.
In this paper, I develop a minor theory that blurs boundaries between prefigurative direct action and symbolic performance to reconsider strategies for resistance and world-building.