Author Archives: stuartelden

AAG Announces 2018 Book Awards The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize This award encourages and rewards American geographers who write books about the United States which convey the insights of professional geography in language that is both interesting and attractive to … Continue reading →

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 →