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Tag Archives: democracy
Critical spatial theory: my thoughts
I was conferencing last week, at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in LA. I was involved in two sessions, the first a panel discussion, organised by Scott Rodgers and Rosie Cox, on the uses of social … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Democracy, Geography, Philosophy, Politics, Social Science, Theory
Tagged AAG, academic blogging, blogging, critical spatial theory, democracy, geography, Urban Politics, Urban Theory
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Creating publics, creating democracies at OpenDemocracy
From my colleague Nick Mahony at the OU’s Creating Publics project, news of a series on the theme of Creating Publics, Opening Democracies at OpenDemocracy.
Posted in Blogs, Democracy, Open University, Politics, Public sphere, Theory
Tagged democracy, Publics
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New book: Democracy and Public Space by John Parkinson
I have just begun reading a new book by John Parkinson, Democracy and Public Space (I came across it here). It combines theorising about key concepts – democracy, public space – with comparative analysis of the quality of democratic public spaces in … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Democracy, Geography, Politics, Public sphere, Theory
Tagged democracy, John Parkinson, Public Space, Urban Theory
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Partha Chatterjee on ‘After subaltern studies’
Further to my earlier ramblings about postcolonial theory, here is an interesting piece by Partha Chatterjee on the legacies and contemporary relevance of the subaltern studies ‘tradition’ (you can find more on this topic at the Cultural Anthropology site) . Of … Continue reading
Geographies of radical democracy
For anyone interested in this sort of thing, I have a new paper, co-written with Gary Bridge, just published on-line in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, which addresses how best to theorise about the relationship between democracy and geography. It develops the idea … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, New Publications, Philosophy, Politics, Public sphere, Social Science, Theory
Tagged agonistic pragmatism, all affected interests, Archon Fung, Critical Theory, democracy, Gary Bridge, geography, James Bohman, John Dewey, Nancy Fraser, pragmatism, Public Space, radical democracy, transactional space, Transnationalism, Urban Politics, Urban Theory
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Lefebvre and Democracy
Reblogged from Path to the Possible: I just got back from a great time at the Association of American Geographers conference in New York. I participated in a session on Henri Lefebvre organized by Andy Merrifield and Louis Moreno. Participants … Continue reading
Compacted doctrines
One reason to have a blog, of course, silly to pretend otherwise, is shameless self-promotion. Or, to put it another, slightly more edifying way, to try to ensure that the things one has to say are made accessible and available … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Geography, Social Science, Theory
Tagged Cultural Turn, Culture, Deconstruction, democracy, Dictionary of Human Geography, Essentialism, Foundationalism, Ideology, Media, publications, Rhetoric, Theory, writing
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Local politics II: does politics only happen occasionally?
Kurt Ivesen, over at the Cities and Citizenship blog, posted a comment on my post about local politics in Swindon last week, which I have been thinking about for a week or so, busy with other things. I haven’t had … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Democracy, Philosophy, Politics, Public sphere, Social Science, Swindon, Theory
Tagged democracy, dissensus, Kurt Ivesen, political parties, politics, post-political, Rancière, Swindon
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Agonistic pragmatism
News from the Political Theory blog of a new book on democracy and pragmatism by Jack Knight and James Johnson, The Priority of Democracy. It puts an emphasis on pragmatism as a tradition that focusses on issues of institutional design and experimentalism, but above … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Geography, New Publications, Philosophy, Politics, Theory
Tagged agonistic pragmatism, all affected interests, democracy, Gary Bridge, Jack Knight, James Johnson, pragmatism
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New blog on urbanism and democracy
Just noticed a new blog by Mark Purcell, Path to the Possible, on issues of urbanism, politics, democracy. Mark is author of Recapturing Democracy, one of the few books I can think of in geography/urban studies that engages in detail with democratic theory. I … Continue reading
