Author Archives: stuartelden

Ben Clift, The Office for Budget Responsibility and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance – Oxford University Press, March 2023 The Office for Budget Responsibility and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governanceis about the politics of economic ideas and technocratic … Continue reading →

Jo van Every, ‘You don’t have to start with an abstract‘ Some interesting discussion, particularly in terms of highlighting multiple ways to work, rather than a single way to begin. Do you use conferences as a way to start new … Continue reading →

 “The Architectural Gift,” a conversation between architectural historian Łukasz Stanek and Places editor Frances Richard Gifted buildings are potent mechanisms of geopolitical reshuffling, premised on an uneven power relation between giver and receiver. How do such exchanges shape cities in transition? For … Continue reading →

Nicholas Terpstra, Senses of Space in the Early Modern World – Cambridge University Press, February 2024 (print and open access) New Books discussion with Miranda Melcher How did early moderns experience sense and space? How did the expanding cultural, political, and social … Continue reading →

Judith Carney, “Planting Resistance: Botanical Legacies of the African Diaspora”, British Academy/Denis Cosgrove lecture, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 28 May 2024, 6pm free, but booking required; part of the Denis Cosgrove lecture series Delivered by the most outstanding academics in … Continue reading →

Marx, A French Passion: The Reception of Marx and Marxisms in France’s Political-Intellectual Life – ed. Antony Burlaud and Jean-Numa Ducange, trans. David Broder, Haymarket Books, March 2024 Despite the collapse of Soviet-style socialism, the spectre of Marx still haunts the French … Continue reading →