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Recent Posts
- ‘Pour votre tranquillité’ article now early online
- Ambiances and Atmospheres in Translation conference audio online
- New Paper accepted to Geoforum: ‘Pour votre tranquillité’: ambiance, atmosphere, and surveillance
- RGS-IBG 2013: Ambiance and Atmospheres: Encountering New Material Frontiers
- Conference event: Ambiances and Atmospheres in Translation, London (Feb 25th-27th)
Author Archives: Paul Simpson
PhD funding in Human Geography at Keele University
A colleague of mine at Keele (Clare Holdsworth) has two PhD studentships available for the coming academic year – one related to education, other to children and youth geographies: “Two fully-funded PhD positions available in Education Geographies and Children and … Continue reading
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New paper forthcoming: Ecologies of Experience
I’ve just received news that my paper ‘Ecologies of Experience: Materiality, sociality, and the embodied experience of (street) performing’ has been fully accepted for publication in Environment and Planning A. This paper has had quite a long gestation, having its … Continue reading
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New Book Coming Soon – Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction
Originally posted on Varve:
I have not written much on this blog for a while. I have been belatedly finishing a book on Geographic Thought I have been writing for about five years. It is delivered! It has been an…
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Call for Papers : Foucault and Mobilities Research
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
A Two-Day Symposium, 6th and 7th of January 2013, Lucerne, Switzerland The publication in English and in German of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France in the years 1970-1984 has been a key…
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Paris days 23-28: Election, Video-editing, and (even) more Left Bank…
So, this is my last night in Paris… Has been an interesting time to be here with the election going on and the day-to-day switching at Marx Dormoy Metro station (my nearest) between student-aged people handing out leaflets of Hollande … Continue reading
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Paris days 14-22: Project discussions, Versailles and other attractions, and reading/writing
So, I’ve been even more slack at posting on here, partly due to a combination of things being eventful (so not having time) and then things being quiet (so taking time to read and write). The last couple of days … Continue reading
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Geography and Post-phenomenology
Interesting post from James Ash here on what a ‘post-phenomenology’ might refer to (in the context of discussing the background of our upcoming RGS-IBG session). James and I will be co-writing a paper to set up the sessions and so … Continue reading
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Paris Days 7-13: Quiet days in Cergy, Left bank tourism, and Gare du Nord fieldwork begins
So, I’ve been a bit slack in posting on here over the last week… The end of last week went quite smoothly and quietly – I worked in Cergy/wrote some more, met with some of Damien’s colleagues and discussed the … Continue reading
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Paris Days 4-6: More moves and finally some work
So, the last (nearly) three days have continued to be eventful… On Sunday I had the great pleasure to move out of the hotel I started off in into my colleague Damien’s apartment while he is in Sweden for the … Continue reading
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Paris Days 2 & 3: Cergy and the Left Bank
So, the last couple of days have been quite eventful. What I thought was just my less than nice hotel room turned out to be a very smelly, dusty, mouldy room which meant I couldn’t sleep from coughing/wheezing and in … Continue reading
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