Author Archives: stuartelden

Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little (eds.), Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and its Legacies – Oxford University Press, December 2024 

Posted on December 1, 2024 by stuartelden

Raluca Grosescu and Ned Richardson-Little (eds.), Socialism and International Law: The Cold War and its Legacies – Oxford University Press, December 2024  The contributions of socialist thinkers and states to the development of international law often go unrecognized. Socialism and … Continue reading →

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Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel, Rethinking Global History, Cambridge University Press, November 2024 (open access and print)

Posted on December 1, 2024 by stuartelden

Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel, Rethinking Global History, Cambridge University Press, November 2024 (open access and print) Despite three decades of rapid expansion and public success, global history’s theoretical and methodological foundations remain under-conceptualised, even to those using them. In … Continue reading →

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Owen Ware, Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany – Routledge, October 2023 and New Books discussion

Posted on November 30, 2024 by stuartelden

Owen Ware, Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany – Routledge, October 2023 There is a New Books discussion with Malcolm Keating. Thanks to dmf for the link. This book sheds new light on the fascinating – at times dark and … Continue reading →

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Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities- Routledge, November 2024

Posted on November 29, 2024 by stuartelden

Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities – Routledge, November 2024 The Introduction is available open access. Volume I was published in 2022. Architecture and the urban … Continue reading →

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Sonia Lavaert, Democratic Thought from Machiavelli to Spinoza: Freedom, Equality, Multitude – trans. Albert Gootjes, Edinburgh University Press, October 2024

Posted on November 28, 2024 by stuartelden

Sonia Lavaert, Democratic Thought from Machiavelli to Spinoza: Freedom, Equality, Multitude – trans. Albert Gootjes, Edinburgh University Press, October 2024 Prohibitively priced hardback and e-book only. Update April 2026: a paperback is now available. In the latter half of the … Continue reading →

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Georges Canguilhem et l’écologie – 3-5 December 2024, Université Paris 8

Posted on November 27, 2024 by stuartelden

Georges Canguilhem et l’écologie – 3-5 December 2024, Université Paris 8

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“Indo-European Thought at the Collège de France”, Social Anthropology Seminar, University of St Andrews, 29 November 2024 (online)

Posted on November 26, 2024 by stuartelden

“Indo-European Thought at the Collège de France“, Social Anthropology Seminar, University of St Andrews, 29 November 2024, 2pm (online) On Friday I’ll be speaking about my current research.

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Books received – Moyn, Pérez, Herring, Vatulescu, Marx, Foucault

Posted on November 25, 2024 by stuartelden

Some books bought recently. Samuel Moyn, Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times; Amín Pérez, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle, trans. Andrew Brown; Emily Herring, Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson … Continue reading →

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Marc-William Palen, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World – Princeton University Press, February 2024 

Posted on November 24, 2024 by stuartelden

Marc-William Palen, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World – Princeton University Press, February 2024  Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalisation in fact … Continue reading →

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Marie-Eve Loiselle, Building Walls, Constructing Identities: Legal Discourse and the Creation of National Borders – Stanford University Press, November 2024

Posted on November 23, 2024 by stuartelden

Marie-Eve Loiselle, Building Walls, Constructing Identities: Legal Discourse and the Creation of National Borders – Stanford University Press, November 2024 States are erecting walls at their borders at a pace unmatched in history, and the wall between the United States and Mexico … Continue reading →

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