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Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, January 2021 (now published and open access introduction)

Posted on February 11, 2021 by stuartelden

Christopher Harker, Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine – Duke University Press, January 2021 In Spacing Debt Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one. Harker traces the emergence … Continue reading →

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Etienne Balibar, “Critical Reflections on the New Definition of the Human Species”, Theory in Crisis seminar, 19 February 2021

Posted on February 11, 2021 by stuartelden

Etienne Balibar, “Critical Reflections on the New Definition of the Human Species“, Theory in Crisis seminar, 19 February 2021 , 4:00PM – 6:00PM (CET)  What is the role of critical theory today and who is it for? What kind of maps … Continue reading →

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Simon Brown, ‘Intellectual Journalism and Intellectual History’, Journal of the History of Ideas blog

Posted on February 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Simon Brown, ‘Intellectual Journalism and Intellectual History‘, Journal of the History of Ideas blog In an interview at the Chronicle Review with the writer and teacher Maggie Doherty about academic humanities and public writing, I encountered a term for the first time that described … Continue reading →

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Harsha Walia, Confronting the Long Arc of U.S. Border Policy, The Intercept

Posted on February 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Confronting the Long Arc of U.S. Border Policy THE CELEBRATORY CLAMOR surrounding President Joe Biden’s 100-day deportation moratorium was short-lived, as a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked the pause on deportation within a few days of its announcement. Even though … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh: History of Sexuality Volume IV, translated by Robert Hurley – Penguin, February 2021

Posted on February 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Confessions of the Flesh: History of Sexuality Volume IV, translated by Robert Hurley, edited by Frédéric Gros – Penguin February 2021 (a translation of Les Aveux de la chair, Gallimard, 2018) The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault’s … Continue reading →

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Books received – Lévi-Strauss, Hyppolite, Balibar, Balibar & Wallenstein, Dumézil, Neocleous, Eliade, Benveniste

Posted on February 10, 2021 by stuartelden

Mainly second-hand books for the ongoing Foucault research and related projects, but also a copy of Mark Neocleous, A Critical Theory of Police Power, and Etienne Balibar, Passions du concept, sent by their authors.

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Etienne Balibar, Spinoza, the Transindividual, translated by Mark G. E. Kelly, Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 (and review by Dan Taylor)

Posted on February 9, 2021 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Etienne Balibar, Spinoza, the Transindividual, translated by Mark G. E. Kelly, Edinburgh University Press, September 2020 One of the most important books on Spinoza to appear in the last 30 years, written by one of…

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Paul Simpson, Non-Representational Theory – Routledge, January 2021

Posted on February 9, 2021 by stuartelden

Paul Simpson, Non-Representational Theory – Routledge, January 2021 Non-representational Theory explores a range of ideas which have recently engaged geographers and have led to the development of an alternative approach to the conception, practice, and production of geographic knowledge. Non-representational Theory … Continue reading →

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Henri F. Ellenberger, Ethnopsychiatry, edited by Emmanuel Delille, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021

Posted on February 8, 2021 by stuartelden

Henri F. Ellenberger, Ethnopsychiatry, edited by Emmanuel Delille, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021 What is the relationship between culture and mental health? Is mental illness universal? Are symptoms of mental disorders different across social groups? In the … Continue reading →

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Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, and Brent J. Steele, Vicarious Identity in International Relations: Self, Security, and Status on the Global Stage – Oxford University Press, March 2021

Posted on February 8, 2021 by stuartelden

Christopher S. Browning, Pertti Joenniemi, and Brent J. Steele, Vicarious Identity in International Relations: Self, Security, and Status on the Global Stage – Oxford University Press, March 2021 Vicarious identification, or “living through another” is a familiar social-psychological concept. Shaped … Continue reading →

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