Monthly Archives: July 2015

Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition – forthcoming in December 2015

Posted on July 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts (eds.), Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition – forthcoming in December 2015 from Palgrave. I was one of the readers of the manuscript to provide an endorsement – it’s a very good and interesting … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s major works to appear in a Pléiade edition – a few more details

Posted on July 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Last year I shared this story: Foucault’s major works – his sole-authored books, plus some articles – will appear in a two-volume collection in 2015 as a prestigious Pléiade edition. Thanks to Colin Gordon for alerting me to the news. Frédéric Gros is interviewed about … Continue reading →

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The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism & Biopolitics (pdf)

Posted on July 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
http://www.re-press.org/book-files/OA_Version_9780980544077_The_Italian_Difference.pdf “This volume brings together essays by different generations of Italian thinkers which address, whether in affirmative, problematizing or genealogical registers, the entanglement of philosophical speculation and political proposition within recent Italian thought. Nihilism and…

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Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment (2015)

Posted on July 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Gramsci and Foucault: A Reassessment.Edited by David Kreps, Ashgate, February 2015 Mapping the resonances, dissonances, and linkages between the thought of Gramsci and Foucault to uncover new tools for socio-political and critical analysis for the…

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An ‘Abe Doctrine’ as Japan’s Grand Strategy: New Dynamism or Dead-End?

Posted on July 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Politics Reconsidered:
Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Under the ‘Abe Doctrine’ By Professor Chris Hughes This post originally appeared on Japan Focus. Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s stunning return to power in the December 2012 landslide election victory, and…

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Transnationalisms: two new reviews

Posted on July 22, 2015 by stuartelden

two new reviews at the Society and Space open site

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on July 19, 2015 by stuartelden

‘Neoliberalism’ and ‘Capitalism’ – what’s the difference? Foucault’s Last Decade Update 25 – resubmission of revised manuscript How We Write: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blank Page – edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, forthcoming from Punctum Machines of Urbanisation – new blog … Continue reading →

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The week after completing a book – initial new work on Shakespeare and Foucault

Posted on July 17, 2015 by stuartelden

When I finished my first book, Mapping the Present, I remember asking a much more senior academic friend ‘what do I do now?’ His response was clear: ‘Write another one!’ This came back to me this week as I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, open access in Antipode – ‘The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology’

Posted on July 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
Hot off the press this week we have something special courtesy of Stuart Elden (University of Warwick) and Adam David Morton (University of Sydney) – a translation (by Warwick’s Matthew Dennis) of Henri Lefebvre’s 1956 essay ‘Théorie…

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Henri Lefebvre, ‘The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology’ – translation and introduction now out in Antipode open access

Posted on July 17, 2015 by stuartelden

A new translation of a piece by Lefebvre, along with an introduction, is now available in Antipode early view – both open access: Henri Lefebvre, The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology : Contribution to the International Congress of Sociology, … Continue reading →

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