Monthly Archives: November 2015

Foucault’s Collaborative Projects – seminar at LSE, November 10th, 4.30pm

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Tomorrow I will be giving a talk entitled “Foucault’s Collaborative Projects: Hospitals, Habitat, and Public Infrastructure” to the Cities, Space and Development seminar series of the Department of Geography & Environment, at the London School of Economics at 4.30pm. It will be held in … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade cover

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ve been waiting to share the cover of Foucault’s Last Decade until the Polity Press webpage was complete, but it is now up on Amazon, so here it is. It will form a pair with Foucault: The Birth of Power – this book … Continue reading →

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Derrida’s 1964-65 seminar ‘Heidegger: The Question of Being and History’ to appear in English in April 2016

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

News of the next translation of the Derrida seminars – 1964-65’s Heidegger: The Question of Being and History, forthcoming in April 2016. After a bit of a delay it seems the seminars are on again – the second volume of La peine … Continue reading →

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Research Associate post at Durham’s IBRU: Centre for Borders Research

Posted on November 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Durham University seeks to employ a full-time Research Associate to contribute to the work of IBRU, an interdisciplinary training and academic research entity based in Durham University’s Department of Geography. This is a fixed-term appointment which will terminate no later … Continue reading →

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The Biopolitics of Gender (2015)

Posted on November 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Jemima Repo (2015) The Biopolitics of Gender. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press Introduces a new theoretical and methodological approach to gender Conducts a genealogy of gender similar to Foucault’s mid-twentieth century genealogy of…

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on November 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Remembering Edward Soja (1940-2015) (see also Derek Gregory’s tribute) Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview from 1979 8 Critical Theory books that came out in October – Golder, Adorno and Lenk, Nealon, King, Withers, Coombs, Barthes, Holub Pierre Macherey, ‘The Productive … Continue reading →

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The Martian, Matt Damon, and Outer Space Law

Posted on November 7, 2015 by stuartelden

A bit belatedly, after getting a number of ‘Does Matt Damon know what he’s talking about?’ emails, I finally got to see The Martian last night. Since it’s not fair that Klaus Dodds and Rachael Squire get to have all…

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Review forum of Jenna Loyd’s 2014 Health Rights Are Civil Rights

Posted on November 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Review forum of Jenna Loyd’s 2014 Health Rights Are Civil Rights at the Society and Space open site

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Everything you always wanted to know about territory, but were afraid to ask Shakespeare – talk to Cambridge University Geographical Society, 25 November 2015

Posted on November 6, 2015 by stuartelden

I’ll be giving the talk I gave at Warwick on Shakespeare’s King John again on the 23rd November at UCL at 6pm (abstract and details here). Then two days later I’ll be giving a talk to the Cambridge University Geography Society, at … Continue reading →

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Journal of Historical Geography review forum on The Birth of Territory published (Legg, Heffernan, McDonagh, Cohen, Sassen, Elden)

Posted on November 6, 2015 by stuartelden

The review forum on The Birth of Territory in Journal of Historical Geography is now published. Reviews by Stephen Legg, Michael Heffernan, Briony McDonagh, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Saskia Sassen, and a response by me. The full article requires subscription, but there is a preprint … Continue reading →

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