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‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’
Verso have posted another one their lists – this time ‘The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List’. Twenty books here including Marx, Paul Mason, Peter Dews, Jameson, Anderson (Perry &...
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IAS director and new term
Today I officially take over as Director (Social Science) of the Institute of Advanced Study. This term’s fellows arrive today, and it should be really interesting – this year’s theme is Time....
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A long day
Yesterday was a long and varied day, in which I dealt with aspects of just about every part of my roles at Durham and beyond. I was in before 8am, dealing with some teaching stuff, and then giving a...
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November
I made it through an exceptionally busy October. Things now calm down substantially, and I can try to get back to a position where my teaching, administrative roles (IAS, IBRU, Society and Space) and...
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Alphonso Lingis interview at Figure/Ground Communication
Fascinating interview here. I don’t believe this paragraph though: For me, being a university professor is not even work. All you do is go to the campus maybe 6 or 8 hours a week and talk about books...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Geography at NUS
I don’t usually post jobs outside Durham, but this is a good scheme in a department that hosted me as a visitor a few years ago. Please note informal enquiries should go to Professor James D Sidaway...
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The National Curriculum in History
History Workshop Online have an interesting discussion of the proposed new UK National Curriculum in history. Here’s the first paragraph: The response to the latest proposals for the National...
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Sighting Oil
On a related topic to the last – I was teaching on ‘resource wars’ this morning – Adrian Ivakhiv points to the current issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, a special issue on...
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Interview with Cynthia Enloe
IR theorist Cynthia Enloe is interviewed at E-IR. One brief answer from a very interesting interview. e-IR: What is the most important advice you could give to young scholars of IR? Read widely. Read...
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A week at Al Quds Bard Honors College
I’ve just got back from spending a week working with Al Quds Bard Honors College in the occupied Palestinian territories, as part of the Open Society Institute’s Academic Fellowship Program. Al Quds...
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Teaching Political Geography
The latest issue of Political Geography includes an interesting discussion of teaching the sub-discipline. Written by Alison J. Williams, Alex Jeffrey, Fiona McConnell, Nick Megoran, Kye Askins, Nick...
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Burning Issues: Geopolitics Today
This autumn I’ll be teaching a course for incoming Masters students at Warwick on global events, which should be useful for their broader studies. The topics are intentionally general so that the...
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Pangaea with today’s boundaries
Click on image for larger sizes. I can imagine this as the beginning of an interesting class discussion. Thanks to Antoine Bousquet for the link.
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Burning Issues: Geopolitics Today – webpage for Warwick class
My MA lecture class at Warwick, Burning Issues: Geopolitics Today now has a webpage.
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State, Power, Freedom: European Political Theory – outline for teaching next...
One of the things I was looking forward to, now back in a Politics department, was to teach some political theory. So, this is the outline of a planned module for either final year undergraduates or MA...
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Why Google Maps gets Africa wrong
Decent piece in The Guardian on maps and projections in relation to Africa. I often use examples just like this at the beginning of courses on territory and geopolitics.
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Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis – reviewed in Times Higher Education
As previously mentioned, Umberto Eco’s 1977 book How to Write a Thesis now out in translation from MIT Press – it is reviewed in The Times Higher Education by Robert Eaglestone – thanks to Dean Bond...
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Interview with Saskia Sassen at Figure/Ground
A brief interview with Saskia Sassen at Figure/Ground, mainly on teaching and changing technologies.
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A new term at Warwick – teaching but also some research
On Monday a new term at Warwick began. My teaching is blocked into term 1, and most of it is in the first few weeks, so this is a busy time. I’m also heading to California next week for the Early...
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The morning after the day before – contemporary politics and research directions
There are many things on which to reflect from yesterday’s events in the USA. One side of my extended family is in Ohio, Michigan and Alabama, so this is personally as well as generally political. But...
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