Monthly Archives: November 2017

Special issue on “Power and Space in the Drone Age”

Posted on November 28, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
A special issue on “Power and Space in the Drone Age” is available (open access) from the journal Geographica Helvetica. The list of contents is below and includes my own paper “Assemblage of the vertical:…

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ScholarlyHub – Scholars launch crowdfunding campaign for non-profit academic platform

Posted on November 28, 2017 by stuartelden

  ScholarlyHub has launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a new, multi-disciplinary open-access platform for scholarly communications. It aims to boost interaction among scholars and enhance their ability to share their work with the public at large, free from the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Wilson, Beer, Park and Kaplan, Sullivan, Roudinesco, Mattern

Posted on November 28, 2017 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books – Matthew Wilson, New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map; David Beer, Metric Power; Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare; Rob Sullivan, The Geography of … Continue reading →

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

Posted on November 28, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
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…

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A question on norms around honoraria

Posted on November 28, 2017 by stuartelden

A message from a North American academic: I have professional question for you. I ask because you have shared a lot on your blog about this kinds of issues: How does one determine one’s honorarium fee? Should one determine or … Continue reading →

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Trevor Paglen: art in the age of mass surveillance

Posted on November 27, 2017 by stuartelden

Trevor Paglen: art in the age of mass surveillance in The Guardian. Trevor Paglen describes himself as a landscape artist, but he is no John Constable. The landscapes Paglen frames extend to the bottom of the ocean and beyond the … Continue reading →

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BOOK: ‘Terror and Territory’ by Stuart Elden

Posted on November 27, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Geopolitics, Territory and Security:
Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty  Geographer and political theorist Stuart Elden’s Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty (2009) is a landmark contribution to literature dealing with the spatialities of…

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How I write and why I write – series of posts at A Trumpet of Sedition

Posted on November 26, 2017 by stuartelden

How I write and why I write – series of posts by historians at A Trumpet of Sedition. Posts by Simone Hanebaum, John Rees, Marcus Rediker, Alison Stuart, Gaby Mahlberg, etc. There are lots more posts about writing and publishing archived here.

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La pensée politique de Foucault (2017)

Posted on November 26, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
La pensée politique de Foucault sous la direction d’Orazio IRRERA et Salvo VACCARO Paris, Editions Kimé (coll. “Philosophie en cours”), 2017, p. 248. Loin d’être considérée comme une simple notion appartenant au vocabulaire de la…

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Say ‘Yes!’ to peer review: Open Access publishing and the need for mutual aid in academia

Posted on November 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Simon Springer et al (2017). Say ‘Yes!’ to peer review: Open Access publishing and the need for mutual aid in academia. Fennia 195: 2, pp. xx–xx. ISSN 1798-5617 [pdf, or scroll down list of forthcoming papers] Scholars are increasingly declining to … Continue reading →

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