Whither Urban Studies?

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by Andy Merrifield, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester

In talking about urban studies I can only talk from and for the perspective I know best: the critical urban tradition that developed out of Marxism in the 1970s, as pioneered by the likes of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey and Manuel Castells. I tried to document and contribute toward this tradition in my book Metromarxism, where I claimed some of the best urban studies has been done by certain Marxists, and some the best Marxism has been done by certain urban theorists.

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Regular Society and Space contributor Andy Merrifield on the future of urban studies at the cities@manchester blog.

Bruno Latour and Francis Halsall on art and inquiry

A conversation between Bruno Latour and Francis Halsall on art and inquiry, forthcoming in the journal but available online now (requires subscription).

Neil Smith in Antipode

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Radical scholars have been remembering their friend, teacher and comrade Neil Smith this week. The good people at Environment and Planning D: Society and Space have pulled together a superb set of Neil's papers; there are obituaries from Neil's alma mater, publisher and colleagues, among many, many others (see here and here); and we've even enjoyed his…

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Antipode links to a number of pieces by Neil Smith - lots of good things to read here.

Bodies in Movement on November, Camacho-Hübner and Latour

Bodies in Movement has a short discussion of the paper by Valérie November, Eduardo Camacho-Hübner and Bruno Latour, “Entering a Risky Territory: Space in the Age of Digital Navigation” – a paper recently made open access as part of our Highlight Papers. You can find the full list here.

Peer Review Guide

A short guide to peer review is available to download here. Much of this is Science-focused, but there is a lot useful across disciplines. Some good discussion of the limitations and benefits of the process.

Open Access highlight papers

The following papers have been chosen as ‘highlights’, and are available open access in order to provide a sense, for nonsubscribers, of the papers published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space.

Differences: chaos in the history of the sciences 30(2) 3692 – 380
M Serres

Psychotopologies: closing the circuit between psychic and material space 29(6) 10302 – 1047
V Blum, A Secor

The surprising detritus of leisure: encountering the Late Photography of War 29(5) 8732 – 890
D Lisle

Bare life: border-crossing deaths and spaces of moral alibi 29(4) 5992 – 612
R L Doty

Atmospheric attunements 29(3) 4452 – 453
K Stewart

“Protest is just a click away!” Responses to the 2003 Iraq War on a bulletin board system in China 29(1) 1312 – 149
C Y Woon

Goatsucker: toward a spatial theory of state secrecy 28(5) 7592 – 771
T Paglen

I am also of the opinion that materialism must be destroyed 28(5) 7722 – 790
G Harman

Entering a risky territory: space in the age of digital navigation 28(4) 5812 – 599
V November, E Camacho-Hübner, B Latour

Splintering spheres of security: Peter Sloterdijk and the contemporary fortress city 28(2) 3262 – 340
F R Klauser

Mobilities, meetings, and futures: an interview with John Urry 28(1) 12 – 16
P Adey, D Bissell

Bestiality and the queering of the human animal 28(1) 1582 – 177
M Brown, C Rasmussen

Roxanne Lynn Doty on why she writes

Society and Space editorial board member Roxanne Lynn Doty has contributed the most recent piece to the ‘I Write Because’ blog – find it here.

‘Imagining and Enacting Community Economies’ – Antipode virtual theme issue

The editors of Antipode have put together a virtual theme issue to link to the lecture Katherine Gibson gave at the RGS-IBG conference. A flyer here and details and links here.

Last days for current free ‘highlight’ papers

We’re currently discussing some new highlight papers to make open access. So if you don’t have institutional access, this would be a good time to grab the following papers.

Eternity or infinity? Badiou’s Point 27(5) 823 – 839 Juliet Flower MacCannell

Geometry in the colossal: the project of metaphysical globalization 27(1) 29 – 40 Peter Sloterdijk (translated by Samuel A Butler)

The Shock Doctrine: a discussion 26(4) 582 – 595 Naomi Klein, Neil Smith

Theorizing sociospatial relations 26(3) 389 – 401 Bob Jessop, Neil Brenner, Martin Jones

Justice and the geographies of moral protest: reflections from Mexico 26(2) 216 – 233 Melissa W Wright

Torture and the ethics of photography 25(6) 951 – 966 Judith Butler

Where eagles dare: an ethno-fable with personal landfill 25(2) 194 – 212 Shiloh R Krupar

And the ‘Boys Town Redux’ virtual theme issue is available for two more weeks…

Thom Brooks – Guidelines on How to Referee

Thom Brooks is editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy, and offers some useful advice here. It is in part intended for early career people, but a lot of this is useful whatever stage of career you are.

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