Author Archives: stuartelden

Candace Fujikane, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai’i – Duke University Press, March 2021 (open access introduction)

Posted on March 23, 2021 by stuartelden

Candace Fujikane, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai’i – Duke University Press, March 2021 The Introduction is open access here. In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future, Candace Fujikane contends that the practice … Continue reading →

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Stuart Elden, ‘Terrain, Politics, History’ – Dialogues in Human Geography article with responses from Gastón Gordillo, Kimberley Peters and Deborah P. Dixon (and more to come)

Posted on March 23, 2021 by stuartelden

My 2019 Dialogues in Human Geography lecture, ‘Terrain, Politics, History‘ has been published online first (open access). The responses are beginning to appear too. The ones available so far are Gastón Gordillo, The power of terrain: The affective materiality of … Continue reading →

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Maria Koinova, Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States – Oxford University Press, March 2021

Posted on March 23, 2021 by stuartelden

Maria Koinova, Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States – Oxford University Press, March 2021 Why do conflict-generated diasporas mobilize in contentious and non-contentious ways or use mixed strategies? This book develops a theory of socio-spatial positionality and its implications for the … Continue reading →

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‘Territorio sin fronteras’ – Spanish translation of my ‘Territory without Borders’

Posted on March 23, 2021 by stuartelden

My 2011 piece ‘Territory without Borders‘, originally published in the Harvard International Review, has been translated into Spanish as ‘Territorio sin fronteras‘ (both open access). Many thanks to Jose Bescos for making the translation. This was an important piece for … Continue reading →

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Two radio programmes on Foucault from 1984 and 1988

Posted on March 19, 2021 by stuartelden

Two radio programmes on Foucault Michel Foucault : Le souci de l’autre (1984 / France Culture) – thanks to Tim Howles for sharing this and also Michel Foucault (1926-1984) : Une vie, une oeuvre [1988 / France Culture] There are … Continue reading →

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Mark Olssen, Constructing Foucault’s Ethics: A Poststructuralist Moral Theory for the Twenty-First Century – Manchester University Press, June 2021 and A Normative Foucauldian: Selected Papers of Mark Olssen – Brill, July 2021

Posted on March 19, 2021 by stuartelden

Mark Olssen, Constructing Foucault’s Ethics: A Poststructuralist Moral Theory for the Twenty-First Century – Manchester University Press, June 2021 updated 28 May 2021 with new description and table of contents In popularizing the term ‘speaking truth to power’, now widely … Continue reading →

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Étienne Balibar — Politics and Science: One Vocation or Two?

Posted on March 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Étienne Balibar — Politics and Science: One Vocation or Two? at boundary 2 online (open access) Translated from the French by Tommaso Manfredini, originally published in Libération

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Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, new translation of all three volumes – Routledge, September 2020

Posted on March 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Ernst Cassirer, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, new translation of all three volumes – Routledge, September 2020 I missed this when it was published last year, but this looks a major undertaking. There is a review in the New York … Continue reading →

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Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past – Bristol University Press, April 2021

Posted on March 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory: Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past – Bristol University Press, April 2021 Social media platforms hold vast amounts of biographical data about our lives. They … Continue reading →

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Paul Allen Miller, Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity: Learning to Speak the Truth – Bloomsbury, November 2021

Posted on March 18, 2021 by stuartelden

Paul Allen Miller, Foucault’s Seminars on Antiquity: Learning to Speak the Truth – Bloomsbury, November 2021 In 1980, Michel Foucault’s work makes two decisive turns. On the one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the Collège … Continue reading →

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