I am still waiting for Nigel Thrift to critically comment on the relevance and usefulness of New Regional Geography to understanding local conditions in the 'developing' world! This was something he promised in the first paper on the topic in Progress in Human Geography.
Nick
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From: Dereka Rushbrook <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:00
Subject: Re: the politics of waiting
The final chapter in Jean-Francois Bayart's "Global Subjects: A
political critique of globalization," is "When waiting is an urgent
matter," (with a section on "Global Godot") with attention to the
bio-politics/bio-power of detention, migration, camps, etc.
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:36 AM, J.S. Hutta <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Going in a slightly different direction to what has been commented so far,
> Andrew Hill (OU) has a forthcoming book entitled "Seeing, Waiting,
> Travelling: Reimagining the War on Terror" (Palgrave 2008). He draws on
> Maurice Blanchot's essay "Waiting" from 1959 ("Whatever the importance of
> the object of waiting, it is always infinitely surpassed by the movement of
> waiting" - quote might not be exact) and on Lacan's 1945 text "Logical time
> and the assertion of anticipated certainty" (Escrits 2006). Hill relates
> what Lacan describes as the stage of trying to comprehend without being able
> to arrive (said to produce anxiety) to the state of waiting initiated in
> events such as last year's media reports on Taliban suicide bomber
> graduates.
>
> Hope this is useful
> simon
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Jeffrey" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 4:30 PM
> Subject: the politics of waiting
>
>
> >I am writing a paper on how diverse subaltern populations have come to
> >experience their marginalization in spatial and temporal terms, especially
> >their sense of waiting. Does anyone know of studies that have discussed
> >waiting as a social/geographical condition?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > Dr. Craig Jeffrey
> > Associate Professor in Geography and International Studies
> > University of Washington
> > Department of Geography Box 353550
> > Seattle, WA 98195
> > USA
> >
> > Phone 001 206 543 5870
> > Fax 001 206 543 3313
> >
>
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