Monthly Archives: November 2017

The Right to the City: A Verso Report – free ebook

Posted on November 8, 2017 by stuartelden

The Right to the City: A Verso Report – free ebook Special eBook collection on the most urgent question of our times: who is the city for? In 1968, the French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre wrote “Le Droite a la Ville” … Continue reading →

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ScholarlyHub.org – a project which is long overdue

Posted on November 7, 2017 by stuartelden

This looks a very interesting new initiative – ScholarlyHub.org Given the problems of academia.edu and Researchgate (see my post here and the comments to it, for example), this seems a project which is long overdue. At ScholarlyHub we believe that a critical … Continue reading →

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Arun Saldanha, Space after Deleuze – now out with Bloomsbury

Posted on November 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Arun Saldanha, Space after Deleuze – now out with Bloomsbury, but unfortunately only in a grotesquely priced hardback. Deleuze’s fondness for geography has long been recognised as central to his thought. This is the first book to introduce researchers to the … Continue reading →

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CFP: Violence, Space, and the Political, 7-9 June 2018 National University of Ireland, Galway

Posted on November 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Violence, Space, and the Political 7-9 June 2018 National University of Ireland, Galway. Call for Papers [deadline 9th February 2018] Send approx. 250 word abstract to violenceandspace@gmail.com In this, multi-disciplinary, conference we wish to think through the imbrications of violence, space, and the political. … Continue reading →

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Citations, references, exhaustion

Posted on November 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Eye on the World:
I don’t exactly dream of a day when all academic outlets agree on one referencing format, but I certainly wish we might get there. I know there are academics who use referencing software…

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academic selves and academic careers

Posted on November 7, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on visual/method/culture:
I visited the wonderful Department of Geography at Maynooth University a couple of weeks ago, and I was kindly invited by the Supporting Women in Geography Ireland group there to a discussion session about…

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Interview on Foucault: The Birth of Power at New Books in Critical Theory

Posted on November 7, 2017 by stuartelden

How did Foucault become a public, political intellectual? In Foucault: The Birth of Power (Polity Press, 2017), Stuart Elden, Professor of Political Theory and Geography at the University of Warwick, follows up his book on Foucault’s Last Decade with research … Continue reading →

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The Priority of Injustice: Arguing With Theory

Posted on November 6, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Pop Theory:
It’s a funny experience, publishing a book – something that one has lived and worked with for perhaps years and invested all sorts of energies into finally comes out, and there is an odd sense…

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James D Boys interview on US foreign policy from Clinton to Trump

Posted on November 6, 2017 by stuartelden

James D Boys recently gave a department seminar at Warwick on his forthcoming book Clinton’s War On Terror. While he was visiting, he was interviewed for Warwick Student Union radio. Henry Riley spoke to American Historian and Foreign Policy expert Dr … Continue reading →

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Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? – minor updates to my guide and reissue of Key Writings

Posted on November 4, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve made some minor updates to my guide Where to start with reading Henri Lefebvre? The key thing added is the reissue of Key Writings, now available in Bloomsbury’s Revelations series.  

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