Monthly Archives: November 2013

Judith Butler and Cornel West – Honoring Edward Said video

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

A really interesting conversation between Butler and West on the tenth anniversary of Said’s death. Thanks to Sławek Królak for the link.

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Gastón R. Gordillo, Rubble – coming in August 2014

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Duke University Press have a page up for Gastón R. Gordillo‘s new book Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction. Little there yet, beyond an August 2014 publication date, and this endorsement from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing: At the edges of the dreamscapes put … Continue reading →

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Early Modern Literary Geographies – new book series with Oxford University Press

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Early Modern Literary Geographies is a new book series with Oxford University Press, under the editorship of Julie Sanders and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. I’m delighted to be part of their advisory board. Here’s the series description: Influenced by the work of cultural … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre and Education

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Sue Middleton’s book Henri Lefebvre and Education: Space, Theory, History is forthcoming in November with Routledge. During his lifetime Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was renowned in France as a philosopher, sociologist and activist. Although he published more…

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Literary Geographies – new open-access e-journal

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

A call for papers for the first issue of Literary Geographies – and check out the blog of the same name which has really useful bibliographies of existing work in this area. Literary Geographies is an interdisciplinary open-access e-journal that provides a … Continue reading →

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The Signature of Power: Sovereignty, Governmentality and Biopolitics (2013)

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mitchell Dean, The Signature of Power: Sovereignty, Governmentality and Biopolitics, SAGE, September 2013 Publisher’s page Description Mitchell Dean revitalized the study of ‘governmentality’ with his bestselling book of the same title. His new book on…

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Unlimited Migration in a Limited World, Saskia Sassen

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXB2tsiKR_E interesting presentation on what she calls the analytic tactics (working out of “epistemic indignation”) before method, which makes sense I think if we consider these terms along sociological lines rather than as strict categories,…

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Peter Johnson on Foucault’s heterotopia

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Peter Johnson has a review essay on Foucault’s heterotopia essay and its afterlife in the new issue of Geography Compass (requires subscription). See also the blog Heterotopian Studies that Peter runs.

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Territory, Politics, Governance – issue 2 published

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Vol 1 No 2 of Territory, Politics, Governance has just been published. Essays by Ananya Roy, Jamie Peck, Gerard Toal & John O’Loughlin and others, many open access. The whole of issue 1 (including pieces by Saskia Sassen, Kevin Cox and me) is … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

The new collection of Shakespeare and others’s Collaborative Plays (see also the news story on this in The Guardian); two issues of Theory, Culture & Society; and the International Politics and Performance collection – hot off the press. I have … Continue reading →

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