Abstract This article explores the financialisation of world’s most important commodity, oil. It argues that much literature on commodities tends to adopt a dualistic approach financial markets and physical producers, where non-financial activities are assumed be externally-related counterposed one another. The locates roots this analytical separation in mistaken acceptance fetish character int...

One of the key examples analysed in Edward Said’s Orientalism is Flaubert’s account his meeting with almeh Kuchiuk Hanem, a skilled dancer and courtesan, Egypt 1850. Frequently revisited by criticism following Said, has had an extraordinary afterlife which she seen as standing for Orient whole, instance synecdoche. We, postcolonial theorists, tend to interpret Kuchiuk-as-text (Flaubert’s notes ...

I consider seven misunderstandings that may be encountered about the nature, purpose and properties of randomisation in clinical trials. Some concern the practical realities of clinical research on patients. Others are to do with the value and purpose of balance. Still others are to do with a confusion about the role of conditioning in valid statistical inference. I consider a simple game of ch...

Creative and feminist geographers position listening as a way to build more responsive, ethical, reciprocal relations people environments. In this paper I argue that for situate – in the broadest definition ‘sensing, attuning, noticing’ part of creative approach reparative practice, we must first understand how Anglo-European modes interpreting world through sound are shaped by ‘sonic coloniali...