Monthly Archives: January 2020

Clancy Wilmott, Mobile Mapping: Space, Cartography and the Digital – Amsterdam UP, March 2020

Posted on January 23, 2020 by stuartelden

Clancy Wilmott, Mobile Mapping: Space, Cartography and the Digital – Amsterdam UP, March 2020 This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in … Continue reading →

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Anna Stilz, Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration – OUP, October 2019 and discussion

Posted on January 23, 2020 by stuartelden

Anna Stilz, Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration – OUP, October 2019 Territorial Sovereignty: A Philosophical Exploration offers a qualified defense of a territorial states-system. It argues that three core values-occupancy, basic justice, and collective self-determination-are served by an international system … Continue reading →

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Correspondance entre Gaston Bachelard et Ludwig Binswanger – open access

Posted on January 22, 2020 by stuartelden

Correspondance entre Gaston Bachelard et Ludwig Binswanger – open access online It’s part of a special issue of Revue Germanique Internationale on ‘Histoire et philosophie de la psychiatrie au XXe siècle : regards croisés franco-allemands’, edited by Elisabetta Basso et … Continue reading →

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Martín Arboleda, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism – Verso, January 2020

Posted on January 22, 2020 by stuartelden

Martín Arboleda, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism – Verso, January 2020 A clarion call to rethink natural resource extraction beyond the extractive industries Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining … Continue reading →

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Christopher Watkin, Michel Serres: Figures of Thought – Edinburgh University Press, March 2020

Posted on January 22, 2020 by stuartelden

Christopher Watkin, Michel Serres: Figures of Thought – Edinburgh University Press, March 2020 Great to see details of this major study, several years in the making. The first full introduction to Serres, from The System of Leibniz (1968) to his … Continue reading →

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Silvia Bigliazzi (ed), Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections – Skenè, 2019 open access book

Posted on January 14, 2020 by stuartelden

Silvia Bigliazzi (ed), Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections – open access book The story of King Lear seems to fill in the blank space separating the end of Oedipus Tyrannus and the beginning of … Continue reading →

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CFP: Curzonic geographies/Reading ‘Frontiers’ – RGS-IBG conference, September 2020

Posted on January 13, 2020 by stuartelden

Call for papers: Curzonic geographies/Reading ‘Frontiers’ RGS-IBG conference, 1-4 September 2020 organised by Richard Schofield (KCL) and Matthew Tillotson (Leicester) – contact Matthew with any queries As an embodiment of a classic, privileged travel writer George Curzon (1859-1925) documented his … Continue reading →

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Society and Space – new magazine style website

Posted on January 13, 2020 by stuartelden

Society and Space has a new digital magazine style website at https://www.societyandspace.org  A free digital magazine and subscription based journal that helps people stay informed on interdisciplinary debates related to pressing social, political, and environmental issues.

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Warwick Graduate Conference in Political and Legal Theory, 15th February 2020

Posted on January 11, 2020 by stuartelden

Warwick Graduate Conference in Political and Legal Theory, Saturday 15th February 2020 The keynote lectures are being given by Clare Chambers (Cambridge) and Elizabeth Cripps (Edinburgh). All queries to PLTGradConf@warwick.ac.uk    

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Thomas Nail, “The Climate-Migration-Industrial Complex” at Public Seminar

Posted on January 10, 2020 by stuartelden

Thomas Nail, “The Climate-Migration-Industrial Complex” at Public Seminar Thirty years ago there were fifteen border walls around the world. Now there are seventy walls and over one billion national and international migrants. International migrants alone may even double in the … Continue reading →

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