Monthly Archives: April 2024

Foucault: Genealogies for the Future – Rice University, 18-19 April 2024, with online option

Posted on April 15, 2024 by stuartelden

Foucault: Genealogies for the Future – Rice University, 18-19 April 2024, with online option news story about the event, organised by Niki Kasumi Clements, here

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Douglas Porch, Resistance and Liberation: France at War 1942-1945 – Cambridge University Press, January 2024

Posted on April 14, 2024 by stuartelden

Douglas Porch, Resistance and Liberation: France at War 1942-1945 – Cambridge University Press, January 2024 In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of … Continue reading →

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Angharad Closs Stephens, National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political – Bloomsbury, September 2022, paperback March 2024

Posted on April 13, 2024 by stuartelden

Angharad Closs Stephens, National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political – Bloomsbury, September 2022, now in paperback Identity is widely acknowledged to be a felt experience, yet questions of atmosphere, mood and public sentiments are rarely made central to … Continue reading →

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Philippe Chevallier, Michel Foucault et le christianisme: Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée – ENS éditions, April 2024

Posted on April 12, 2024 by stuartelden

Philippe Chevallier, Michel Foucault et le christianisme: Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée – ENS éditions, April 2024 This excellent book is updated in the light of newly available material since the pioneering 2011 first edition. Des rites antiques à la … Continue reading →

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David N. Livingstone, The Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea – Princeton University Press, April 2024 (USA); June 2024 (UK)

Posted on April 11, 2024 by stuartelden

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

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Thinking Global Podcast – Quentin Skinner at E-International Relations

Posted on April 11, 2024 by stuartelden

Thinking Global Podcast – Quentin Skinner at E-International Relations This week on the Thinking Global Podcast, Professor Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary, University of London – @QMHistory) speaks with the team about contextualism, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and more. Professor Skinner chats with Kieran (⁠⁠⁠@kieranjomeara⁠⁠⁠) … Continue reading →

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Dave Beer on making decisions about research plans; and some thoughts of my own

Posted on April 10, 2024 by stuartelden

Some interesting thoughts from Dave Beer on making decisions about research plans – At a research junction A few years ago I wrote a page for this site about how, largely retrospectively, I saw the main periods of my research … Continue reading →

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Gisèle Sapiro, The Sociology of Literature – trans. Madeline Bedecarré and Ben Libman, Stanford University Press, October 2023

Posted on April 10, 2024 by stuartelden

Gisèle Sapiro, The Sociology of Literature – trans. Madeline Bedecarré and Ben Libman, Stanford University Press, October 2023 The Sociology of Literature is a pithy primer on the history, affordances, and potential futures of this growing field of study, which finds … Continue reading →

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Pramod K. Nayar, Vulnerable Earth: The Literature of Climate Crisis – Cambridge University Press, May 2024

Posted on April 9, 2024 by stuartelden

Pramod K. Nayar, Vulnerable Earth: The Literature of Climate Crisis – Cambridge University Press, May 2024 Vulnerable Earth is a study of the literature of climate crisis. Building on the assumption that the crisis is planetary in scope even if … Continue reading →

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“Foucault and Structuralism” – a book chapter for Daniele Lorenzini’s collection The Foucauldian Mind

Posted on April 8, 2024 by stuartelden

I recently wrote a book chapter on “Foucault and Structuralism” for The Foucauldian Mind, edited by my friend and former Warwick colleague Daniele Lorenzini. It’s been an interesting diversion from the other work. Contrary to my usual practice, where I … Continue reading →

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