Monthly Archives: September 2023

Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People – Duke University Press, September 2022 (introduction open access)

Posted on September 20, 2023 by stuartelden

Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People – Duke University Press, September 2022 I’m late in noticing this book, published last year. The Introduction is available open access here. In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore … Continue reading →

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Call for proposals: World Congress. Foucault: 40 years after (2023-2024)

Posted on September 19, 2023 by stuartelden

Proposals for activities should be sent to: foucault40after@gmail.com to the Coordinator of the International Scientific Committee: Prof. Rodrigo Castro. Information about activities should include: a) The title of the activityb) A short description (5 lines)c) The city and country in which the activity … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Lydia Riley, Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain – Penguin, August 2023 and New Books discussion

Posted on September 18, 2023 by stuartelden

Charlotte Lydia Riley, Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain – Penguin, August 2023 After the Second World War, Britain’s overseas empire disintegrated. As white settlers from Rhodesia returned home to a country they barely recognised, Commonwealth citizens … Continue reading →

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Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography – Stanford University Press, July 2020; and New Books discussion

Posted on September 17, 2023 by stuartelden

Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography – Stanford University Press, July 2020 There is a New Books discussion between the author, David Norman Smith, Peter Audis and Sean Sayers, moderated by Morteza Hajizadeh here. An … Continue reading →

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Marie Allitt, Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

Posted on September 16, 2023 by stuartelden

Marie Allitt, Medical Caregiving Narratives of the First World War: Geographies of Care – Edinburgh University Press, May 2023 (print and open access)

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Teresa Degenhardt, War as Protection from Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’ – Routledge, September 2023

Posted on September 15, 2023 by stuartelden

Teresa Degenhardt, War as Protection from Punishment: Armed International Intervention at the ‘End of History’ – Routledge, September 2023 This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory is ten years old…

Posted on September 14, 2023 by stuartelden

The book I consider to be my best work – The Birth of Territory – is ten years old this week. It was published by University of Chicago Press in September 2013. It is the most cited, most widely reviewed … Continue reading →

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Andrea Pavoni and Simone Tulumello, Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere – Roman & Littlefield, September 2023

Posted on September 14, 2023 by stuartelden

Andrea Pavoni and Simone Tulumello, Urban Violence: Security, Imaginary, Atmosphere – Rowman & Littlefield, September 2023 Urban violence still has a peculiar standing within social and urban research. This book works to unpack the link between urban, violence, and security … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, “From the Archive to the Edited Translation: Lefebvre, Foucault, Dumézil”, audio recording from May 2023 workshop

Posted on September 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Technical problems meant that there was unfortunately not a full recording of the Translation and the Archive in the Continental Tradition workshop, held at Senate House, London on 19 May 2023. I did however record my own talk on my … Continue reading →

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Zdenka Sokolíčková, The Paradox of Svalbard: Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic – Pluto, July 2023 and New Books discussion

Posted on September 12, 2023 by stuartelden

Zdenka Sokolíčková, The Paradox of Svalbard: Climate Change and Globalisation in the Arctic – Pluto, July 2023 There is a New Books discussion with Stentor Danielson here. Thanks to dmf for this link. The town of Longyearbyen in the high … Continue reading →

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