Monthly Archives: November 2018

Thanos Zartaloudis, The Birth of Nomos – Edinburgh University Press, 2018 Unfortunately only in an expensive hardback at present, but this looks a major study. Delves into the history of the ancient Greek word nomos (and related words) to reveal … Continue reading →

Law and Politics in the Anthropocene, Birkbeck, 10 December 2018 Free to attend, but registration required Speakers: Alain Pottage (LSE) / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (University of Westminster) / Daniel Matthews (University of Hong Kong) / Lilian Moncrieff (University of Glasgow) / … Continue reading →

CFP: Violence, Space and the Archives – National University of Ireland, Galway, 23-24 May 2019 We invite paper submissions from across the disciplinary spectrum for a conference on ‘Violence, Space and the Archives’ to examine the challenges and possibilities presented … Continue reading →

Stephen Legg and Deena Heath (eds.), South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings – Cambridge University Press, 2018 This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth … Continue reading →

Adam Bobbette and Amy Donovan (eds.), Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life – Springer 2018. Looks an interesting collection but a great shame about the prohibitive price. This book builds on the enthusiasm for the geological generated … Continue reading →