Monthly Archives: September 2016

Alistair Fraser on ‘Writing a book’

Posted on September 30, 2016 by stuartelden

At the Maynooth Geography blog, Alistair Fraser reflects on ‘Writing a book‘. He’s just published Global Foodscapes: Oppression and resistance in the life of food, which looks interesting, but the reflections and advice are general and should be useful to many people embarking on … Continue reading →

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Carceral Geography conference, University of Birmingham, Tuesday 13th December 2016.

Posted on September 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Carceral Geography conference, University of Birmingham, Tuesday 13th December 2016 Abstracts are invited for papers which address the themes of this conference: Confinement, Crossings and Conditions. These themes pertain to the nature and experience of carceral confinement, broadly interpreted; the notion … Continue reading →

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Adam Kotsko’s thoughts on Dotan Leshem’s Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault

Posted on September 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Adam Kotsko’s thoughts on Dotan Leshem’s The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault. 

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Saskia Sassen interviewed by Shamus Khan in Public Culture (requires subscription)

Posted on September 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Saskia Sassen interviewed by Shamus Khan in Public Culture (requires subscription) Shamus Khan talks with Saskia Sassen about some of her most influential book projects, from The Mobility of Labor and Capital and The Global City to her recent publication, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in … Continue reading →

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Grandfathers, Geopolitics, and Generational Legacies

Posted on September 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on colinflintgeopolitics:
My book Geopolitical Constructs: The Mulberry Harbours, World War Two, and the Making of a Militarized Transatlantic has just been published by Rowman and Littlefield (http://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442266681/Geopolitical-Constructs-The-Mulberry-Harbours-World-War-Two-and-the-Making-of-a-Militarized-Transatlantic). This book has been a long labor of love for…

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Daniel McLoughlin (ed.) Agamben and Radical Politics

Posted on September 28, 2016 by stuartelden

This looks an interesting collection: Agamben and Radical Politics, edited by Daniel McLoughlin. Giorgio Agamben’s analysis of sovereignty was profoundly influential for critical theory as it grappled with issues of security and state violence in the wake of 11 September 2001. … Continue reading →

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La grande soif de l’etat. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales (2016)

Posted on September 28, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Arnault Skornicki,La grande soif de l’etat. Michel Foucault avec les sciences sociales, Les Prairies Ordinaires, 2016. 288 pages, 20 € ISBN 978-2-35096-116-3 Michel Foucault n’est pas réputé être un théoricien de l’État, mais un penseur…

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Foucault’s History of Sexuality Vol I, 40 years on – theme issue of Cultural History

Posted on September 27, 2016 by stuartelden

‘Revisiting The History of Sexuality: Thinking with Foucault at Forty’, theme issue of Cultural History, guest edited by Howard Chiang. Here’s the abstract of the introduction: This critical introduction discusses the major interventions of this special issue commemorating the fortieth anniversary … Continue reading →

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International Law and the Territorial Gains and Losses of Non-State Actors, London, 27 October 2016

Posted on September 27, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking at the launch event of a new project on International Law and The Territorial Gains and Losses of Non-State Actors in London on 27 October 2016, 5pm. The other speaker is Patrick Zahnd, Professor of Humanitarian International Law  at SciencesPo. … Continue reading →

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Books received – Holinshed, Hannigan, de Vries on Latour, Howkins, International Political Sociology

Posted on September 26, 2016 by stuartelden

A second-hand copy of Holinshed’s Chronicles – the parts used by Shakespeare; and some books in recompense for review work for Polity and Routledge.

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