Author Archives: 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 →

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 →

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

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 →

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

Andrew Drummond, The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary – Verso, February 2024 [Update: thanks to Philippe Theophanidis for a link to the author’s webpage with a lot more … Continue reading →

Steve Mentz, Sailing without Ahab: Ecopoetic Travels – Fordham University Press, 2024; foreword by Suzanne Conklin Akbari. Navigate the Depths of a Timeless Classic, Reimagined. Come sail with I. We’re not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the … Continue reading →