Monthly Archives: October 2023

David N. Livingstone, The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea – Princeton University Press, April 2024

Posted on October 5, 2023 by stuartelden

David N. Livingstone, The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea – Princeton University Press, April 2024 Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest threat facing our planet and may … Continue reading →

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Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023

Posted on October 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023 Now in paperback: What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows … Continue reading →

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Andrea Marston, Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia – Duke University Press, March 2024

Posted on October 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Andrea Marston, Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia – Duke University Press, March 2024 In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic formation that has been central to Bolivian politics … Continue reading →

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CFP: The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies, 4 & 5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam

Posted on October 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Call for Papers: The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies, 4-5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2023. For this two-day, single-stream, and in-person conference, sponsored by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and … Continue reading →

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Ian Merkel, Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences – University of Chicago Press, 2022 and Journal of the History of Ideas discussion

Posted on October 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Ian Merkel, Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences – University of Chicago Press, 2022 A collective intellectual biography that sheds new light on the Annales school, structuralism, and racial democracy. Would the most recognizable ideas in … Continue reading →

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