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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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Adriana Zaharijevic, Judith Butler and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, August 2023

Posted on September 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Adriana Zaharijevic, Judith Butler and Politics – Edinburgh University Press, August 2023 Just an expensive hardback only at this point unfortunately

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Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023

Posted on September 29, 2023 by stuartelden

Gilles Deleuze, Sur la peinture – ed. David Lapoujade, Minuit, 2023 [update August 2025: the English translation On Painting is now published] De 1970 à 1987, Gilles Deleuze a donné un cours hebdomadaire à l’université expérimentale de Vincennes, puis de … Continue reading →

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CfP: Conference of Critical Legal Geography – 21-23 February 2024, Turin

Posted on September 28, 2023 by stuartelden

CfP: Conference of Critical Legal Geography – 21-23 February 2024, Turin

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Melvin L. Rogers, The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought – Princeton University Press, September 2023

Posted on September 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Melvin L. Rogers, The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought – Princeton University Press, September 2023 Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to reject … Continue reading →

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Jens Bartelson, Becoming International – Cambridge University Press, October 2023

Posted on September 26, 2023 by stuartelden

Jens Bartelson, Becoming International – Cambridge University Press, October 2023

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History of the Present – the Berkeley newsletter on Foucault’s work online via the Wayback Machine

Posted on September 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Quite a while ago I posted about History of the Present, the newsletter devoted to Foucault’s work published by Paul Rabinow and edited by him and other people at Berkeley. It used to be online via Rabinow’s Anthropos Lab. At … Continue reading →

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