Monthly Archives: November 2013

ACME theme issue on ‘Impact’ and ‘Enforced Disappearances’

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies Vol 13 No 1 has now been published, and includes a theme section on the impact agenda in UK higher education; as well as another theme section on enforced disappearances. As ever, all … Continue reading →

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David Lambert – Mastering the Niger

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

David Lambert’s new book Mastering the Niger: James MacQueen’s African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery has just been published by University of Chicago Press. In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of A … Continue reading →

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Judith Butler – Parting Ways explained in six minutes

Posted on November 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Parting Ways has just been released in paperback – embed doesn’t work so see critical-theory.com.

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Stuart Hall – Culture and Power interview from 1997 in RP now open access

Posted on November 10, 2013 by stuartelden

Radical Philosophy have made a 1997 interview with Stuart Hall, “Culture and Power” available open access.

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Interview with Adrian Ivakhiv by Harlan Morehouse

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Very interesting interview at the Society and Space open site, with Adrian Ivakhiv on his new book Ecologies of the Moving Image, conducted by Harlan Morehouse.

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Latour’s Gifford lectures – text now available as pdf

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Update 2019: These links seem to be dead, but the pdf of the lectures can be found here; and the videos here. The lectures are now available as a book – details here. Bruno Latour has made the text of … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – author meets critics session at the AAG

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Claudio Minca and Jeremy Crampton have organised an ‘author meets critics’ session on The Birth of Territory for the Association of American Geographers in Tampa next year. The panellists will be Juliet Fall, Alec Murphy, Joe Bryan and Anssi Paasi, with … Continue reading →

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Books received – Heidegger Gesamtausgabe volumes

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Recently received, two huge volumes of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe. The first, itself in two parts, is Volume 73, one of the manuscripts Heidegger chose not to publish in his lifetime, under the title of Zum Ereignis Denken. This follows from … Continue reading →

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Criticism and critique: On academic books

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

An interesting post on how books are received for their promise rather than read and appreciated, with some good examples.

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Reassembling International Theory – new edited collection

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Coming out later this month, an interesting looking collection entitled Reassembling International Theory: Assemblage Thinking and International Relations, edited by Michele Acuto and Simon Curtis. Outrageous price of £45 for 136 pages though. What can ‘assemblage thinking’ contribute to international theory? Assemblages have been invoked … Continue reading →

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