Author Archives: stuartelden

Georges Dumézil’s journalism and his 1924 account of the Tutankhamun discovery 

Posted on September 20, 2026 by stuartelden

In November 1922, the British archaeologist Howard Carter first opened the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor. In March 1924, the French comparative mythologist Georges Dumézil wrote a short newspaper piece about the Egyptian pharaoh. … Continue reading →

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Deepshikha Shahi ed. Nondualism in International Relations: A Methodological Reconstruction Beyond Binaries – Routledge, September 2026

Posted on September 19, 2026 by stuartelden

Deepshikha Shahi ed. Nondualism in International Relations: A Methodological Reconstruction Beyond Binaries – Routledge, September 2026 Nondualism in International Relations: A Methodological Reconstruction Beyond Binaries examines howInternational Relations (IR) has long been structured by binary thinking—inside/outside, self/other, West/non-West, hierarchy/anarchy, and theory/practice. While … Continue reading →

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Bruno Leipold, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought – Princeton University Press, November 2024, paperback October 2026

Posted on September 18, 2026 by stuartelden

Bruno Leipold, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought – Princeton University Press, November 2024, paperback October 2026 In Citizen Marx, Bruno Leipold argues that, contrary to certain interpretive commonplaces, Karl Marx’s thinking was deeply … Continue reading →

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Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun, Mosquito Work: Vectors of Global Health – Duke University Press, November 2026

Posted on September 17, 2026 by stuartelden

Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun, Mosquito Work: Vectors of Global Health – Duke University Press, November 2026 Introduction open access at this link In Mosquito Work, Ann H. Kelly and Javier Lezaun reimagine global health by returning to its most … Continue reading →

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Meha Dixit and Saranjam Baig eds. Territory and Turmoil: Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan – Routledge, September 2026

Posted on September 16, 2026 by stuartelden

Meha Dixit and Saranjam Baig eds. Territory and Turmoil: Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan – Routledge, September 2026 This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intertwined cultural, historical, and geopolitical landscape of Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) – two regions separated by … Continue reading →

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Thom Brooks, Political Philosophy: The Fundamentals – Wiley-Blackwell, 2025 and review at NDPR

Posted on September 15, 2026 by stuartelden

Thom Brooks, Political Philosophy: The Fundamentals – Wiley-Blackwell, April 2025 review at NDPR by Simone Gubler

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Julian Go and Stuart Schrader eds. Imperial Entanglements of Policing – Duke University Press, November 2026

Posted on September 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Julian Go and Stuart Schrader eds. Imperial Entanglements of Policing – Duke University Press, November 2026 Introduction open access at the above link. In recent years, people across the world have protested the violence of policing and its intrusion into … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits. Une anthologie, introduction by Frédéric Gros, Chronology by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, notes and index by Dan di Razza Dilasser – Bibliothèque de la Pléiade October 2026

Posted on September 14, 2026 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits. Une anthologie, introduction by Frédéric Gros, Chronology by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, notes and index by Dan di Razza Dilasser – Bibliothèque de la Pléiade October 2026 I’ve mentioned this collection before, but thanks to Foucault News for … Continue reading →

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No, not that Henri Lefebvre – The Missing Pieces

Posted on September 13, 2026 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned this before, but the Henri Lefebvre who wrote Les unités perdues (2004, 2011), translated by David L. Sweet as The Missing Pieces (2014), is not the Henri Lefebvre who wrote The Production of Space and The Critique of Everyday Life, among many other works.  For one thing, … Continue reading →

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Carlo Ginzburg-Perry Anderson correspondence in New Left Review

Posted on September 12, 2026 by stuartelden

The current issue of New Left Review has some of the correspondence between Perry Anderson and Carlo Ginzburg, with an introduction by Anderson (requires subscription).

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