Why the Map is Never the Territory EDITED BY PHIL COHEN AND MIKE DUGGAN New Directions in Radical Cartography looks at the contemporary debates about the role of maps in society. It explores the emergence of counter-mapping as a distinctive field of practice, and the impact that digital mapping technologies have had on cartographic practice and theory. It includes … [Read more...] about New Directions in Radical Cartography
Books
A Long Life in the Making
Phil's has created a Vimeo video of the book with selected readings. This is an afterword to my father's memoir which I have just edited for forthcoming publication by eyeglass books. I thought that the reader might be interested to know a bit more about the biographical background to this memoir, what motivated and influenced … [Read more...] about A Long Life in the Making
Political Mindfulness: Fresh Perspectives on Multiple Crises’
By Phil Cohen The text assembled here represents a thoughtful attempt to begin to find a way out of the current impasse in which progressive politics finds itself. The collection explores the connections between the personal and political dimensions of mindfulness and how this might help us build strategies capable of winning the battle for hearts and … [Read more...] about Political Mindfulness: Fresh Perspectives on Multiple Crises’
There Must Be Some Way Out of Here
Political Mindfulness and Left responses to a multiple crisis Edited by Phil Cohen With contributions from Ruth Lister,Angela McRobbie, Dick Pountain, Michael Rustin, and Valerie Walkerdone Taken together the pieces assembled here represent a thoughtful attempt to begin to find a way out of the current impasse in which the Left finds itself, … [Read more...] about There Must Be Some Way Out of Here
WAYPOINTS: Towards an ecology of political mindfulness
We are living through disturbed and disturbing times in which the maps drawn by political scientists no longer make sense of what is happening on the ground. Against this background the propagandists of neo-liberal individualism urge us to cultivate ‘resilience’ and ‘mindfulness’ as a way of seizing and surviving the present moment. Mindfulness in particular has been … [Read more...] about WAYPOINTS: Towards an ecology of political mindfulness
