Category Archives: Books

The Dimensions of Territory – audio of talk at Al Quds Bard Honors College

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

The audio recording of my talk earlier this month at Al Quds Bard Honors College, “The Dimensions of Territory”, is available here. For people who know my work on territory it doesn’t have much new, but it tries to give … Continue reading →

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Authors’ annotations to their novels

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

The Guardian has some interesting annotations from authors to their own books.

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The Birth of Territory endorsements

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

As The Birth of Territory inches towards publication, the University of Chicago Press page now has three endorsements for the book. Neil Brenner, Harvard University “Stuart Elden has written a pathbreaking book on a foundational concept in modern political and … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

A lot of books arrived while I was away. Many of these are background reading on Israel/Palestine, a couple of which I’d read before, but Maha Samman’s Trans-Colonial Urban Space in Palestine is to review; the new issues of Society … Continue reading →

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David Morris, A Sense of Space – now in paperback

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

David Morris’s book A Sense of Space, in the excellent SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy, is now available in paperback. A phenomenological account of spatial perception in relation to the lived body. The Sense of Space brings together space … Continue reading →

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Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy – paperback due in July

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

I missed the hardback of this a while back, but the paperback is due in July. Carbon Democracy provides a unique examination of the relationship between oil and democracy. Interweaving the history of energy, political analysis, and economic theory, Mitchell … Continue reading →

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Mark Blyth on the Austerity Delusion

Posted on April 29, 2013 by

Mark Blyth’s Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea has just come out; there is a summary of the argument in Foreign Affairs (open access). Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.

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On the shelf

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

Reblogged from Pop Theory: Just came across this little essay by Francesca Mari on shelving books…. A nice essay on books and their shelves.

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Deleuze, Lefebvre, Gadamer, Dworkin, Gandhi, Churchill

Posted on April 27, 2013 by

Some interesting company in the Bloomsbury Revelations series…

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Books received

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

The new Oxford Dictionary of Human Geography, and the latest issues of Transactions and Annals. Rob Kitchin, one of the authors of the dictionary, reflects briefly on it here, and provides the text of the preface.

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