A new biography by Jonathan Sperber on Karl Marx, which implicitly proposes a materialist account of a materialist thinker, has gotten a glowing review by the NY Times and much less favorable one [PDF] from Terry Eagleton.
The University of Arizona has launched the Public Political Ecology Lab with an accompanying blog.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) released a massive investigative report based on a trove of leaked documents (larger than Wikileaks’ Cablegate) on global money laundering and tax havens: “Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze.”
A New Yorker piece profiling the work of Neil Freemen, an urban planner, artist, and urban geography provocateur: “The Alternative Geography of Neil Freemen.”
Looking forward to seeing friends and colleagues at the Association of American Geographers’ meeting next week in LA!
also, the European Network of Poltical Ecology was officially launched, with an accompanying website http://www.politicalecology.eu