Author Archives: stuartelden

I was deeply saddened to hear the news of the sudden, tragic death of Dr Stewart Williams, senior lecturer in Geography at University of Tasmania. I got to know Stewart when I spent three happy months at UTas in 2006, … Continue reading →

Following those pieces in Cultural Anthropology, Franck Billé has put together another 25 short pieces on Volumetric Sovereignty, the first group of which has appeared in Society and Space. Ground Tim Ingold Lines Dylan Brady Interference Aditi Saraf Vortex Jeremy … Continue reading →

Speaking Volumes – series of short pieces in Contemporary Anthropology, edited by Franck Billé. I’d posted about this before (I had a piece on Terrain), but there are some newer pieces added which I don’t think I linked to previously. … Continue reading →

After a short break following Gary Gutting’s sad death, NDPR is back with reviews. The most recent reviews are listed here.

David Beer, Writings about old ideas: A year with Georg Simmel at Medium An interesting piece on the process of writing his forthcoming book Georg Simmel’s Concluding Thoughts: Worlds, Lives, Fragments (Palgrave, 2019) For several years I’d been trying to write … Continue reading →

Stuart Schrader, Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing – University of California Press, November 2019 From the Cold War through today, the U.S. has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil unrest and … Continue reading →

Alexandre Kojève, Atheism, translated by Jeff Love, Columbia UP 2018 One of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers, Alexandre Kojève was a Russian émigré to France whose lectures on Hegel in the 1930s galvanized a generation of French intellectuals. … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body, translated by Justin E. H. Smith,  Bloomsbury 2019 In this original and important book, Corine Pelluchon argues for nothing less than a new social contract that…