Monthly Archives: January 2016

Moving Together: conference at Durham

Posted on January 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Details of a conference at Durham in May

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In Memoriam: Benedict Anderson (1936-2015) by Vicente L. Rafael

Posted on January 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Vicente Rafael on Benedict Anderson at the Society and Space open site.

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Jeroen Vandaele on translations of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir

Posted on January 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Jeroen Vandaele, ‘What is an author, indeed: Michel Foucault in translation‘, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, Vol 24 No 1, 2016, pp. 76-92 (requires subscription). A very interesting piece which discusses translations of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir with lots of examples and comparisons. Though … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 11: clearing the decks and beginning to move from Foucault to Shakespeare

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

The UCL talk last week was the last one in the diary until September – a very deliberate choice to open up some time that needed quite a bit of forward-planning to achieve. I might do one or two book … Continue reading →

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Five strategies to get your academic writing “unstuck”

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

‘Five strategies to get your academic writing “unstuck”‘from Raul Pacheco-Vega at the LSE Impact of Social Science blog. This is a repost from his own blog, and the first of a series.

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Foucault and the Groupe Information Santé – a bibliography

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault’s involvement with the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons is fairly well-known, with important collections of documentary material published in French, a forthcoming English translation of material, and a growing secondary literature in French and English. His involvement with the Groupe … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory’s ‘Reach from the Sky’ Tanner lectures

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

Last week I took the short trip from London to Cambridge to attend Derek Gregory’s Tanner lectures – ‘Reach from the sky: aerial violence and the everywhere war’. The lectures covered a lot, from early aircraft to the Second World … Continue reading →

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Foucault and the Politics of Health: Collaborative research and activism – audio recording of UCL talk

Posted on January 18, 2016 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk of 12 January 2016 to the Geography Department seminar, University College London is now available here. The introduction is by Tariq Jazeel. “Foucault and the Politics of Health – Collaborative research and activism” Concentrating … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on January 17, 2016 by stuartelden

Appeal by Sartre, Foucault, Guattari, Deleuze and others on imprisonment of Italian intellectuals, 1977 Red Notes, Italy 1977-8: ‘Living with an Earthquake’ – entire pamphlet online Academic Books of 2015 – my top twenty Michel Foucault on refugees – a previously untranslated interview … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, The Ways of the World – now published (and in paperback), and open access extract

Posted on January 17, 2016 by stuartelden

David Harvey, The Ways of the World is now published, and an open access extract is available here. This book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey’s intellectual journey over five decades. It shows how experiencing the riots, despair … Continue reading →

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