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This Weeks News is a Geography Lesson

Sunday, September 21, 2008

News concerning the failure, nationalization and and rescue mergers of major banks in New York and London is not coming from ‘nowhere’.  Understanding what happens next is hard if one concentrates on the media search for the next particular financial weakling to be culled (the speculation has been on Morgan Stanley, seeking a Chinese partner) [...]

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Durkheim on Katrina

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Although many things have been said about Katrina and New Orleans, and Space and Culture will have a themed issue (9.1) to appear in early 2006, I thought I’d just add another comment – if only to evidence that although Durkheim is certainly old hat, his conceptual repertoire might have some interesting bits to help [...]

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