Simon Springer
I am Professor of Human Geography, Head of Discipline for Geography and Environmental Studies, and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Previously I was Professor (July 2018-Nov 2018), Associate Professor (July 2015-June 2018), and Assistant Professor (July 2012-June 2015) at the University of Victoria, Canada, Lecturer (Dec 2010-June 2012) at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Assistant Professor (July 2009-Dec 2010) at the National University of Singapore.
I serve as Editor of the 'Transforming Capitalism' book series published by Rowman & Littlefield, and formerly as Managing Editor for 'ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies'.
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My research interests are broadly situated within political, development, urban, economic, and social geography, with a particular interest in Cambodia. My primary aim is to understanding the relationship between neoliberalism and violence. I use an anarchist lens in exploring the possibilities of non-violence, and how this can productively be woven into geographical knowledge.
Supervisors: Philippe Le Billon, Barry Riddell, and Catherine Nolin
Address: Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
University of Newcastle
University Drive
Callaghan NSW 2308
Australia
Previously I was Professor (July 2018-Nov 2018), Associate Professor (July 2015-June 2018), and Assistant Professor (July 2012-June 2015) at the University of Victoria, Canada, Lecturer (Dec 2010-June 2012) at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Assistant Professor (July 2009-Dec 2010) at the National University of Singapore.
I serve as Editor of the 'Transforming Capitalism' book series published by Rowman & Littlefield, and formerly as Managing Editor for 'ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies'.
RESEARCH
My research interests are broadly situated within political, development, urban, economic, and social geography, with a particular interest in Cambodia. My primary aim is to understanding the relationship between neoliberalism and violence. I use an anarchist lens in exploring the possibilities of non-violence, and how this can productively be woven into geographical knowledge.
Supervisors: Philippe Le Billon, Barry Riddell, and Catherine Nolin
Address: Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
University of Newcastle
University Drive
Callaghan NSW 2308
Australia
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This book deals with the post-conflict geographies of violence and neoliberalisation in Cambodia. Applying a geographical analysis to contemporary Cambodian politics, the author employs notions of neoliberalism, public space, and radical democracy as the most substantive components of its theoretical edifice. He argues that the promotion of unfettered marketisation is the foremost causal factor in the country’s inability to consolidate democracy following a United Nations sponsored transition. The book demonstrates Cambodian perspectives on the role of public space in Cambodia's process of democratic development and explains the implications of violence and its relationship with neoliberalism.
Taking into account the transition from war to peace, authoritarianism to democracy, and command economy to a free market, this book offers a critical appraisal of the political economy in Cambodia.
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Reviews:
Gunn, G. C. 2013. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 43.1: 188-191.
Brickell, K. 2011. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 52.3: 372-374.
Percival, T. 2011. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 32.2: 270-272.
Christie, R. 2010. South East Asia Research, 19.2: 349-372.
Ordóñez de Pablos, P. 2010. International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management, 1.4: 65-66.
Edited Books & Special Issues by Simon Springer
Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history dating back to Antiquity. Yet, it is only recently that researchers have begun the process of formalizing the study of veganism. Whereas occasional publications have recently emerged from sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, or critical animal studies, a comprehensive geographical analysis is missing. Until now. In fourteen chapters from a diverse group of scholars and living practitioners, Vegan Geographies looks across space and scale, exploring the appropriateness of vegan ethics among diverse social and cultural groups, and within the midst of broader neoliberal economic and political frameworks that seek to commodify and marketize the movement. Vegan Geographies fundamentally challenges outdated but still dominant human–nature dualisms that underpin widespread suffering and ecological degradation, providing practical and accessible pathways for people interested in challenging contemporary systems and working collectively toward less destructive worlds.
This volume centers around the idea that anarchism, as a conceptual framework, encourages us to contend with the multiple lines of difference, the various iterations of privilege, and the manifold set of archies that undergird our understandings of the world, and crucially, our place within it.
The results of this form of environmental management and governance are many, but by and large, across the globe, it has meant governments construct a specific idea regarding nature and the environment. These forms of control also extend beyond the natural environment, allowing for particular methods of managing human and non-human populations in order to maintain power and enact sovereignty.
This volume contributes to advancing an ‘ecology of freedom,’ which can critique current anthropocentric environmental destruction, as well as focusing on environmental justice and decentralized ecological governance. While concentrating on these areas of anarchist political ecology, three major themes emerged from the chapters: the legacies of colonialism that continue to echo in current resource management and governance practices, the necessity of overcoming human/nature dualisms for environmental justice and sustainability, and finally discussions and critiques of extractivism as a governing and economic mentality.
With authors working at institutions around the world, the Handbook of Neoliberalism will offer a thorough examination of how neoliberalism is understood by social scientists working from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Our goal is to advance the established and emergent debates in a field that has grown exponentially over the past two decades, coinciding with the meteoric rise of neoliberalism as a hegemonic ideology, state form, policy and program, and governmentality. In short, the Handbook of Neoliberalism will intervene by both outlining how theorizations of neoliberalism have evolved and by exploring new research agendas that we hope will inform policy making and activism. The Handbook of Neoliberalism will include a substantive introductory chapter and seven main thematic sections. By presenting a comprehensive examination of the field, this edited volume will serve as an invaluable resource for undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scholars alike. We envision the book as both a teaching guide and a reference for human geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, heterodox economists, and others working on questions of neoliberalism and its multifarious effects.
With proposed contributions from over 35 leading Cambodia scholars, the Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia will offer a systematic overview of Cambodia’s political-economic tensions, rural developments, urban conflicts, social processes and cultural currents. Numerous books have been published on Cambodia, including important edited volumes, but none of these contributions have attempted to bring the diverse scope and wide-ranging coverage that we plan to incorporate here. Most of the edited volumes and monographs on Cambodia that have been published to date have a very specific thematic focus, either on particular empirical case studies, or alternatively attempt to wrestle with a specific historical concern. In contrast, the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia aims to provide the first comprehensive overview of the state of the field today.
With authors working at institutions spread across the globe, the Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia will offer a thorough examination of how contemporary Cambodia is understood by social scientists working from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Our goal is to advance the established and emergent debates in a field of study that has changed rapidly in the past ten years. In short, the Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia will intervene by both outlining how understandings of sociocultural and political economic processes in Cambodia have evolved and by exploring new research agendas that we hope will inform policy making and activism. The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia will include a substantive introductory chapter and six main thematic sections. By presenting a comprehensive examination of the field, this edited volume will serve as an invaluable resource for undergraduates, grad students, and professional scholars alike. We envision the book as both a teaching guide and a reference for Asian studies scholars, human geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and critical economists.
This edited volume proceeds from the perspective that as contemporary global challenges push anarchist agendas back into widespread currency, geographers need to rise to this occasion and begin (re)mapping the possibilities of what anarchist perspectives might yet contribute to the discipline. We develop an exploratory volume, where explicitly and unashamedly anarchist approaches to human geography have been allowed to blossom in all their wonderful plurality. Accommodating a diversity of positionalities demands an unconstrained and eclectic embrace, and accordingly we understand the potentialities of anarchist theory and praxis as protean and manifold. Through this unfolding and variegated approach, we seek to expose readers to a variety of epistemological, ontological, and methodological interpretations of anarchism, unencumbered by the strict disciplining frameworks that characterize other political philosophies, and purposefully open to contradiction and critique.
Included articles:
1. Foreword: Looking Forward / Acting Backward - Myrna Margulies Breitbart
2. Reanimating Anarchist Geographies: A New Burst of Colour - Simon Springer, Anthony Ince, Jenny Pickerill, Gavin Brown & Adam J. Barker
3. Anarchism! What Geography Still Ought to Be - Simon Springer
4. The Pervasive Nature of Heterodox Economic Spaces at a Time of Neoliberal Crisis: Towards a "Postneoliberal" Anarchist Future - Richard J. White & Colin C. Williams
5. In the Shell of the Old: Anarchist Geographies of Territorialisation - Anthony Ince
6. Emotion at the Center of Radical Politics: On the Affective Structures of Rebellion and Control - Nathan L. Clough
7. Anarchy, Geography and Drift - Jeff Ferrell
8. Radicalizing Relationships To and Through Shared Geographies: Why Anarchists Need to Understand Indigenous Connections to Land and Place - Adam J. Barker & Jenny Pickerill
9. Practice What You Teach: Placing Anarchism In and Out of the Classroom - Farhang Rouhani
10. Afterword: Anarchist Geographies and Revolutionary Strategies - Uri Gordon
Journal Articles by Simon Springer
This book deals with the post-conflict geographies of violence and neoliberalisation in Cambodia. Applying a geographical analysis to contemporary Cambodian politics, the author employs notions of neoliberalism, public space, and radical democracy as the most substantive components of its theoretical edifice. He argues that the promotion of unfettered marketisation is the foremost causal factor in the country’s inability to consolidate democracy following a United Nations sponsored transition. The book demonstrates Cambodian perspectives on the role of public space in Cambodia's process of democratic development and explains the implications of violence and its relationship with neoliberalism.
Taking into account the transition from war to peace, authoritarianism to democracy, and command economy to a free market, this book offers a critical appraisal of the political economy in Cambodia.
______________________________________________________
Reviews:
Gunn, G. C. 2013. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 43.1: 188-191.
Brickell, K. 2011. Asia Pacific Viewpoint, 52.3: 372-374.
Percival, T. 2011. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 32.2: 270-272.
Christie, R. 2010. South East Asia Research, 19.2: 349-372.
Ordóñez de Pablos, P. 2010. International Journal of Asian Business and Information Management, 1.4: 65-66.
Veganism as an ethics and a practice has a recorded history dating back to Antiquity. Yet, it is only recently that researchers have begun the process of formalizing the study of veganism. Whereas occasional publications have recently emerged from sociology, history, philosophy, cultural studies, or critical animal studies, a comprehensive geographical analysis is missing. Until now. In fourteen chapters from a diverse group of scholars and living practitioners, Vegan Geographies looks across space and scale, exploring the appropriateness of vegan ethics among diverse social and cultural groups, and within the midst of broader neoliberal economic and political frameworks that seek to commodify and marketize the movement. Vegan Geographies fundamentally challenges outdated but still dominant human–nature dualisms that underpin widespread suffering and ecological degradation, providing practical and accessible pathways for people interested in challenging contemporary systems and working collectively toward less destructive worlds.
This volume centers around the idea that anarchism, as a conceptual framework, encourages us to contend with the multiple lines of difference, the various iterations of privilege, and the manifold set of archies that undergird our understandings of the world, and crucially, our place within it.
The results of this form of environmental management and governance are many, but by and large, across the globe, it has meant governments construct a specific idea regarding nature and the environment. These forms of control also extend beyond the natural environment, allowing for particular methods of managing human and non-human populations in order to maintain power and enact sovereignty.
This volume contributes to advancing an ‘ecology of freedom,’ which can critique current anthropocentric environmental destruction, as well as focusing on environmental justice and decentralized ecological governance. While concentrating on these areas of anarchist political ecology, three major themes emerged from the chapters: the legacies of colonialism that continue to echo in current resource management and governance practices, the necessity of overcoming human/nature dualisms for environmental justice and sustainability, and finally discussions and critiques of extractivism as a governing and economic mentality.
With authors working at institutions around the world, the Handbook of Neoliberalism will offer a thorough examination of how neoliberalism is understood by social scientists working from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Our goal is to advance the established and emergent debates in a field that has grown exponentially over the past two decades, coinciding with the meteoric rise of neoliberalism as a hegemonic ideology, state form, policy and program, and governmentality. In short, the Handbook of Neoliberalism will intervene by both outlining how theorizations of neoliberalism have evolved and by exploring new research agendas that we hope will inform policy making and activism. The Handbook of Neoliberalism will include a substantive introductory chapter and seven main thematic sections. By presenting a comprehensive examination of the field, this edited volume will serve as an invaluable resource for undergraduates, graduate students, and professional scholars alike. We envision the book as both a teaching guide and a reference for human geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, heterodox economists, and others working on questions of neoliberalism and its multifarious effects.
With proposed contributions from over 35 leading Cambodia scholars, the Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia will offer a systematic overview of Cambodia’s political-economic tensions, rural developments, urban conflicts, social processes and cultural currents. Numerous books have been published on Cambodia, including important edited volumes, but none of these contributions have attempted to bring the diverse scope and wide-ranging coverage that we plan to incorporate here. Most of the edited volumes and monographs on Cambodia that have been published to date have a very specific thematic focus, either on particular empirical case studies, or alternatively attempt to wrestle with a specific historical concern. In contrast, the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia aims to provide the first comprehensive overview of the state of the field today.
With authors working at institutions spread across the globe, the Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia will offer a thorough examination of how contemporary Cambodia is understood by social scientists working from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Our goal is to advance the established and emergent debates in a field of study that has changed rapidly in the past ten years. In short, the Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia will intervene by both outlining how understandings of sociocultural and political economic processes in Cambodia have evolved and by exploring new research agendas that we hope will inform policy making and activism. The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia will include a substantive introductory chapter and six main thematic sections. By presenting a comprehensive examination of the field, this edited volume will serve as an invaluable resource for undergraduates, grad students, and professional scholars alike. We envision the book as both a teaching guide and a reference for Asian studies scholars, human geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and critical economists.
This edited volume proceeds from the perspective that as contemporary global challenges push anarchist agendas back into widespread currency, geographers need to rise to this occasion and begin (re)mapping the possibilities of what anarchist perspectives might yet contribute to the discipline. We develop an exploratory volume, where explicitly and unashamedly anarchist approaches to human geography have been allowed to blossom in all their wonderful plurality. Accommodating a diversity of positionalities demands an unconstrained and eclectic embrace, and accordingly we understand the potentialities of anarchist theory and praxis as protean and manifold. Through this unfolding and variegated approach, we seek to expose readers to a variety of epistemological, ontological, and methodological interpretations of anarchism, unencumbered by the strict disciplining frameworks that characterize other political philosophies, and purposefully open to contradiction and critique.
Included articles:
1. Foreword: Looking Forward / Acting Backward - Myrna Margulies Breitbart
2. Reanimating Anarchist Geographies: A New Burst of Colour - Simon Springer, Anthony Ince, Jenny Pickerill, Gavin Brown & Adam J. Barker
3. Anarchism! What Geography Still Ought to Be - Simon Springer
4. The Pervasive Nature of Heterodox Economic Spaces at a Time of Neoliberal Crisis: Towards a "Postneoliberal" Anarchist Future - Richard J. White & Colin C. Williams
5. In the Shell of the Old: Anarchist Geographies of Territorialisation - Anthony Ince
6. Emotion at the Center of Radical Politics: On the Affective Structures of Rebellion and Control - Nathan L. Clough
7. Anarchy, Geography and Drift - Jeff Ferrell
8. Radicalizing Relationships To and Through Shared Geographies: Why Anarchists Need to Understand Indigenous Connections to Land and Place - Adam J. Barker & Jenny Pickerill
9. Practice What You Teach: Placing Anarchism In and Out of the Classroom - Farhang Rouhani
10. Afterword: Anarchist Geographies and Revolutionary Strategies - Uri Gordon
This volume centers around the idea that anarchism, as a conceptual framework, encourages us to contend with the multiple lines of difference, the various iterations of privilege, and the manifold set of archies that undergird our understandings of the world, and crucially, our place within it.
The results of this form of environmental management and governance are many, but by and large, across the globe, it has meant governments construct a specific idea regarding nature and the environment. These forms of control also extend beyond the natural environment, allowing for particular methods of managing human and non-human populations in order to maintain power and enact sovereignty.
This volume contributes to advancing an ‘ecology of freedom,’ which can critique current anthropocentric environmental destruction, as well as focusing on environmental justice and decentralized ecological governance. While concentrating on these areas of anarchist political ecology, three major themes emerged from the chapters: the legacies of colonialism that continue to echo in current resource management and governance practices, the necessity of overcoming human/nature dualisms for environmental justice and sustainability, and finally discussions and critiques of extractivism as a governing and economic mentality.
Edited by F. Ferretti, F. Toro, G. Barrera, and A. Ince
Neoliberalizm çağdaş kuramları , bir yandan , çalışmalar yönetimsellik biçimi olarak neoliberalizm vurgulayan Foucault tarafından etkilenmiş , diğer yandan , soruşturmalar bir hegemonik ideoloji olarak neoliberalizm öne çıkan Marx tarafından etkilenmiş arasında yanlış bir ikiliğin tarafından çerçeveli . Bu makalede , bir söylem olarak neoliberalizm daha esnek anlayışlara yol açabilecek şekilde yeni tartışmaları ve değişiklik var olanları açmak için bir çaba bu bölünmenin biraz ışık parlamaya istiyor. Bir söylem yaklaşımı öne neoliberalizm tanıyarak kuramları hamle ' yukarıdan aşağıya ' ne de ' aşağıdan yukarıya ' fenomen değil, sosyo-mekansal dönüşüm dolambaçlı bir süreç ne olduğunu.
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*armed with high impact factor pitchforks and well-referenced battle songs
Police are becoming evermore militarized and brazen in their approach, so much so that a general sentiment of anxiety exists towards to those who are said to ‘serve and protect’. Anarchists have long been cognizant of the dangers that policing poses to the general public, recognizing that we should be ever vigilant of the potential for abuse and harassment. This volume seeks contributions written from an anarchist perspective addressing themes including but not limited to:
• Everyday anarchism in responding to police brutality
• Race and racism in policing
• Police overreach and excessive power
• Filming police, data seizure, and police cover-ups
• Gender politics and sexual misconduct in policing
• Uneven geographies of police violence
• The blue wall of silence
• Property, the ruling class, and policing
• Policing and schooling
• Restorative justice and prison abolition
• The state, the police, and the police state
• Police brutality in the global south
• Representations of anti-policing in media and popular culture
• Undercover policing and infiltration of activist/anarchist groups
• Anti-police slogans and graffiti
• The militarization of policing
• Community-led alternatives to policing
• Deconstructing ‘crime’ and the decriminalization of society
• Vigilantism, community patrols, and intervention teams
• The policing of poverty, and the poverty of policing
• Historical and contemporary encounters between police and anarchists
• The politics of anti-policing sentiment
• Copwatch, Peaceful Streets, and other grassroots organizations
• The thin blue lie
• Intersectional and Total Liberation responses to anti-policing
• Intimate partnerships with undercover police as sexual and emotional violence
• How conceptually useful is neoliberalism in different disciplines?
• How has the concept of neoliberalism evolved over time?
• Does neoliberalism represent a useful or critical way of understanding
the current state of the world?
• What are the limitations to our use of neoliberalism?
• Does neoliberalism need updating as a critical concept in ways that
take us beyond hybridity and variegation?
• What is missing from debates on neoliberalism in contemporary
scholarship?
• What makes neoliberalism such a popular analytical framework?
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• Are there alternative ways to conceptualize neoliberalism?
• Are we in need of finding alternative conceptions that break with the
language of ‘neoliberalism’ altogether?
• What might new visions beyond neoliberalism yield in terms of our
collective political future?
La paz posee un valor intrínseco para los anarquistas y libertarios en general, tanto ética y estéticamente. Un compromiso con una paz significativa y duradera es necesariamente el verdadero antípoda del fascismo, una ideología arraigada en la noción de "gloria" militar y en el culto de la fuerza bruta. El liberalismo burgués y su formal y superficial “estado de derecho” no es suficiente para impugnar estos impulsos catastróficos, mientras que las corrientes anarquistas y libertarias en general proporcionan una respuesta en forma de rechazo de la soberanía estatal y la misma noción de un “monopolio de la violencia”. Y así, en la cara profunda de la violencia, nosotros desde la izquierda libertaria preguntamos: ¿en qué circunstancias se puede lograr la paz de una manera efectiva y duradera? ¿Cómo pueden las geografías anarquistas ayudarnos a entender la lógica de la lucha social y las posibilidades de paz en varias escalas? ¿En qué medida han contribuido las tradiciones libertarias para el nuestro entendimiento de estos desafíos, y cómo pueden el anarquismo y las perspectivas libertarias en general contribuir a un futuro de paz?
Peace possesses an intrinsic value for anarchists and left-libertarians, both ethically and aesthetically. A commitment to meaningful and lasting peace is necessarily the true antipode of fascism, an ideology rooted in notions of military ‘glory’ and the worship of brute force. A bourgeois liberalism and its formal and superficial ‘rule of law’ is not enough to contest these catastrophic impulses, while anarchism and left-libertarian streams provide an answer in the form of rejecting state sovereignty and the very notion of a ‘monopoly of violence’. And so in the face of profound violence, on the libertarian-left we ask, under which circumstances can peace be achieved in an apt and durable way? How can anarchist geographies help us understand the logic of social struggle and the possibilities of peace at various scales? To what extent have left-libertarian traditions added to our understanding of these challenges, and how can anarchism and left- libertarian perspectives more generally contribute to a peaceful future?
1st International Conference of Anarchist Geographies and Geographers (ICAGG) – Geography, social change and antiauthoritarian practices
Reggio Emilia (Italy) – Centro Studi Cucine del Popolo, via Beethoven 78/e, 21-23 September 2017 – www.icagg.org
New ideas and concepts have emerged through this renewed interest in anarchism, which promises to transform the intellectual landscape of geography as we know it. This growing maturity and diversity of anarchist thought, however, has been characterized by a heavy focus on theory. As scholars identifying with anarchist traditions, we feel it is both timely and vitally important to explore critically and in greater depth what these theoretical and conceptual innovations mean for academic praxis – in the empirical, as well as pedagogical and methodological, dimensions of geographical scholarship.
From its initial conceptualization in Mont Pelerin in 1947, neoliberalism has now become a ubiquitous term. In geography, and elsewhere, it is used to theorize everything from the development of ecosystem services through urban regeneration to financialization (Springer, Birch & MacLeavy 2016). Across a range of disciplines it is conceptualized in various ways as, for example, a geographical process; a form of governmentality; the restoration of elite class power; a discourse; a political project of institutional change; a set of transformative ideas; a development policy paradigm; a radical political slogan; an epistemic community or thought collective; an economic ideology or doctrine; a particular form of violence; and so on. Such variety and diversity in intellectual analysis (i.e. an explanatory framework) and substantive topic (i.e. a thing to explain) have produced a glut of concepts, theories, and analyses. While this medley might be seen as a necessary – and fruitful – outcome of such a hybrid and heterogeneous process, it also has the potential side-effect of leaving us more confused than enlightened. It is increasingly difficult, on the one hand, to parse or synthesize this intellectual (yet often contradictory) abundance and, on the other hand, to apply it to policy or practical issues facing diverse communities, societies, organizations and individuals around the world. It also risk becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, where despite our hesitancies, we come to believe that there really is no alternative. A body of literature is emerging that is critical of current conceptions and understandings of neoliberalism, highlighting these issues (e.g. Boas & Gans- Morse 2009; Barnett 2009; Weller and O’Neill 2014; Flew 2014; Birch 2015; Venugopal 2015).
As a fourth-year course, our approach within the classroom will be largely theoretical, where you are required to think critically about the concepts we explore though your engagement with the readings and during our meetings. At the same time, the course involves a hands-on component that requires you to directly engage with the community on a topic or issue of your choosing. This two-sided approach is considered an important pedagogical exercise in that it breaks down the proverbial “Ivory Tower” in bringing theory outside of the academy and into our shared streets and neighborhoods. The course itself is run as a seminar, which means that it requires your active participation."
(1) to provide a solid foundation and appreciation for the diversity of contemporary perspectives in human geography;
(2) to examine major thematic areas of human geographical inquiry and debate;
(3) to, above all, cultivate one’s own “geographical imagination” by critically assessing current geographical scholarship while also contributing to the literature with an original piece of geographical research.
The format for class sessions will be based upon group discussions of the assigned readings, where students will have the opportunity to present to the class and facilitate at least one class discussion over the course of the semester.
El anarquismo y la Geografía como disciplina académica tienen una larga y discontinua relación histórica. A nales del siglo XIX Peter Kropotkine y Élisée Reclus, destacados pensadores anarquistas, produjeron una importante cantidad de escritos geográ cos. Aun así, a pesar de la intensa discusión intelectual que los trabajos de estos dos individuos generó, tras sus muertes en los primeros años del siglo XX, las ideas anarquistas en el ámbito la disciplina geográ ca disminuyeron considerablemente. No fue sino hasta mediados de la década de 1970 que el anarquismo una vez más fue parte de los trabajos de geógrafos que, al establecer las bases de lo que hoy es conocido como “geografía radical”, buscaron reintegrar el anarquismo como una losofía política válida y digna de ser parte del debate intelectual dentro de la disciplina. Lamentablemente, este orecimiento fue relativamente corto y aunque muchos geógrafos radicales contemporáneos utilizan en cierto sentido teorías y prácticas que comparten a nidades con el anarquismo, el vínculo explícito con las ideas anarquistas ha sido limitado entre los geógrafos debido, sobre todo, a la popularidad del Marxismo, feminismo y más recientemente las críticas post-estructuralistas.
Esta conferencia se desarrolla desde una perspectiva en donde los desafíos globales contemporáneos han adjudicado una amplia aceptación a las agendas anarquistas. En este contexto algunos han hablado abiertamente de un “giro anarquista” en las ciencias sociales. Investigadores y activistas necesitan alzarse ante esta coyuntura y comenzar a (re)mapear las posibilidades de cómo las perspectivas anarquistas pueden contribuir al entendimiento de la geografía y, de la misma manera, cómo puede contribuir la geografía al entendimiento, apreciación y práctica del anarquismo.
We talk Veganism, Anarchism, Peter Kropotkin, Cambodia, Protesting, Police Violence, the Refugee Crisis, Xenophobia, Geography and much more.
Table of Contents
Themed Section - Civic Geographies
Civic Geographies: Pictures and Other Things at an Exhibition PDF
Chris Philo, Kye Askins, Ian Cook 355-366
Civic Geographies of Architectural Enthusiasm PDF
Ruth Craggs, Hilary Geoghegan, Hannah Neate 367-376
“I can do things here that I can’t do in my own life”: The Making of a Civic Archive at the Salford Lads Club PDF
Luke Dickens, Richard L. MacDonald 377-389
Waterwise: Extending Civic Engagements for Co-creating more Sustainable Washing Futures PDF
Anna R. Davies, Ruth Doyle 390-400
Civic MacBough Goes To Town PDF
Issie MacPhail 401-412
Occupy RGS(IBG) 2012 PDF
Carlus Hudson, Ian Cook 413-421
Us and Us: Agonism, Non-Violence and the Relational Spaces of Civic Activism PDF
Kye Askins, Kelvin Mason 422-430
Radical Civic Transitions: Networking and Building Civic Solutions PDF
Larch Maxey, Tom Henfrey, Shaun Chamberline, Chris Bird, Jesus Gonsalez 431-441
Themed Section - Migration and Activism
Guest Editorial: Interventions in Migration and Activism PDF
Deirdre Conlon, Nick Gill 442-451
An ‘Invented People’: Palestinian Refugee Women and Meanings of Home PDF
Maria Holt 452-460
Stories Told By, For, and About Women Refugees: Engendering Resistance PDF
Kate Smith 461-469
Being Together: Everyday Geographies and the Quiet Politics of Belonging PDF
Kye Askins 470-478
Precarious Lives: Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Resistance within Unfree Labouring PDF
Louise Waite, Hannah Lewis, Peter Dwyer, Stuart Hodkinson 479-491
Subverting neoliberal citizenship. Migrant struggles for the right to stay in contemporary Italy PDF
Federico Oliveri 492-503
Narratives of Resistance: Space, Place, and Identity in Latino Migrant Activism PDF
Mauro J. Caraccioli, Bryan Wright 504-511
Policing Immigrants as Politicizing Immigration: The Paradox of Border Enforcement PDF
Walter J Nicholls 512-521
Transit Migration in Mexico: Violence, Activism, and Structural Change PDF (ESPAÑOL)
Júlio da Silveira Moreira 522-538
Research
Violence, Colonialism and Space: Towards a Decolonizing Dialogue PDF
Cindy Holmes, Sarah Hunt, Amy Piedalue 539-570
Becoming Periphery - Israeli LGBT “Peripheralization” PDF
Gilly Hartal 571-597
Whose Commons are Mobilities Spaces? – The Case of Copenhagen’s Cyclists PDF
Malene Freudendal-Pedersen 598-621
Commentary
Geopolitics, Genocide and the Olympic Games: Sochi 2014 PDF
Andrew Foxall 622-630
Olympic Violence: Memory, Colonialism, and the Politics of Place PDF
Simon Springer 631-638
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https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/omi.2022.0059
Diversity also rests in the way we frame questions long before answers are sought.
Such diversity in the framing (epistemology) of scientific and societal questions is important for they influence the types of data, results, and impacts produced by research. Errors in the framing of a research question, whether in technical science or social science, are known as type III errors, as opposed to the better known type I (false positives) and type II errors (false negatives). Kimball defined “error of the third kind” as giving the right answer to the wrong problem. Raiffa described the type III error as correctly solving the wrong problem. Type III errors are upstream or design flaws, often driven by unchecked human values and power, and can adversely impact an entire innovation ecosystem, waste money, time, careers, and precious resources by focusing on the wrong or incorrectly framed question and hypothesis. Decades may pass while technology experts, scientists, social scientists, funding agencies and management consultants continue to tackle questions that suffer from type III errors.
We propose a new diversity metric, the Frame Diversity Index (FDI), based on the hitherto neglected diversities in knowledge framing. The FDI would be positively correlated with epistemological diversity and technological democracy, and inversely correlated with prevalence of type III errors in innovation ecosystems, consortia, and knowledge networks. We suggest that the FDI can usefully measure (and prevent) type III error risks in innovation ecosystems, and help broaden the concepts and practices of diversity and inclusion in science, technology, innovation and society.
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/omi.2018.0002
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
Lies and disinformation have always existed throughout human history. However, disinformation has become a “pandemic within a pandemic” with convergence of COVID-19 and digital transformation of health care, climate emergency, and pervasive human–computer interaction in all facets of life. We are living through an era of post-truth. New approaches to fight disinformation are urgently needed and of paramount importance for systems science and planetary health.
This article takes seriously the role of master narratives in quotidian life in production of disinformation and ecological breakdown. We discuss the ways in which extractive and entrenched epistemologies such as technocracy and neoliberalism co-produce disinformation. We draw from the works of David Collingridge in technology entrenchment and the literature on digital health, international affairs, climate emergency, degrowth, and decolonializing methodologies.
We expand the vocabulary on and interventions against disinformation, and propose the following: (1) rapid epistemic disobedience as a critical governance tool to resist the cultural hegemony of neoliberalism and its master narrative infinite growth that is damaging the planetary ecosystems, while creating echo chambers overflowing with disinformation, and (2) a two-tiered taxonomy of reflexivity, a state of self-cognizance by knowledge actors, for example, scientists, engineers, and physicians (type 1 reflexivity), as well as by chroniclers of former actors, for example, civil society organizations, journalists, social sciences, and humanities scholars (type 2 reflexivity).
The infinite growth narrative does not ask critical questions such as “growth in what, at what costs to society and environment?,” and is a dangerous game of brinkmanship that has been testing the planetary ecological boundaries and putting at risk the veracity of knowledge. There is a need for scholars and systems scientists who break ranks with entrenched narratives that pose existential threats to planetary sustainability and are harmful to knowledge veracity. Scholars who resist the obvious recklessness and juggernaut of the pursuit of neoliberal infinite growth would be rooting for living responsibly and in solidarity on a planet with finite resources. The interventions proposed in this study, rapid epistemic disobedience and the expanded reflexivity taxonomy, can advance progressive policies for a good life for all within planetary boundaries, and decolonize knowledge from disinformation in ways that are necessarily upstream, radical, rapid, and emancipatory.
Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1089/omi.2022.0041