Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals, and Fantasies of Conquest. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Photo: Munim Wasif ‘Water Tragedy’ Series, Shortlisted Prix Pictet 2008.
The idea of “island” deserves to be rethought today. Long a topos where bygone colonial powers articulate various fantasies underlying their world historical projects, the island has in recent past added […]
World finance as a network of many centres
Will the G20 become the L20? The ‘Leaders 20′ would be a regular meeting of not only Finance Ministers but Prime Ministers and Presidents who meet to discuss global problems including climate change? There is still a long way to go, but the Toronto Globe and Mail reports […]
Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero. Marita Sturken, Duke University Press, Durham: 2007.
Serendipitously, I read Sturken’s Tourists of History while visiting one of the kitschiest cities in the Canadian prairies: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Moose Jaw has made a tourist industry out of Chinese immigrant exploitation of the early […]
It was the form of the thing, the unmanaged
Man Feeding Pigeons by Amy Clampitt
Photo by Alan Saunders
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Autonomous Geographies
A two year action research project run jointly by geographers at the University of Leeds and the University of Leicester. We use the term autonomous geographies to define ‘…those spaces where there is a desire to constitute non-capitalist, collective forms of politics, identity and citizenship, which are created through a combination of resistance and […]