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Category Archives: Spatiality & temporality

Contagious Economics

Monday, May 10, 2010

Thanks to Strange Maps, which includes a lucid discussion and comments on how Economic Crisis re-spatializes Europe…

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Academic space and culture

Monday, June 22, 2009

I recently learned of University of Chicago PhD student Eli Thorkelson’s blog, Decasia: Critique of Academic Culture and it is wonderful to read.
Eli’s PhD project comprises an anthropological analysis of university culture, and he’s also looking at the socialisation of graduate students. I remember being told as a Master’s student that it was not [...]

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Rethinking Topology and Topography

Monday, May 25, 2009

Hidden Landscapes by Chris Thompson
Geographical Methodology as Spatialization and Topology (Part of “Theorizing Place: Interdisciplinary Trajectories” A Panel Discussion at the Canadian Association of Geographers Meeting, Carleton University, May 27, 2009):
This presentation focuses on the virtuality of place, an object of study which resists specification in material or topographic terms. In effect, place exceeds [...]

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What should we do with GIS?

Saturday, January 24, 2009

How could one avoid being just a technical end-user and late-adopter of Geographical Information Systems – that’s geodata or spatial data in other lingo : Does anyone have truly theoretical and methodological innovations in areas such as GIS for visualization of local and of community issues, locative and mobile media applications, [...]

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Geopolitics of Scapegoating: The Russian Bailout of Iceland’s Financial Crisis

Friday, October 10, 2008

Over the last 2 weeks, Icelandic banks were caught by the unwillingness of other banks to continue to lend capital on overnight markets. Taking advantage of liberal credit and deregulation, Icelandic banks had been amongst the most aggressive in expanding to Europe. With a small local economy, heavily leveraged expansion overseas was [...]

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