Author Archives: stuartelden

Nicholas Allen, Late Heaney – Oxford University Press, January 2026 Late Heaney follows Seamus Heaney through the landscapes, friendships and events that shaped his last four collections, The Spirit Level, Electric Light, District and Circle, and Human Chain, all set in conversation with his work … Continue reading →

Ari Jerrems, The Spatial Limits of Political Community: Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain – Bristol University Press, September 2025 Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell us … Continue reading →

Kodili Henry Chukwuma, Nigeria’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy: Constructions of Threat, Response and Identity – Edinburgh University Press, August 2025, print and open access

Harald Bodenschatz, Victoria Grau, Christiane Post and Max Welch Guerra eds., Urban Planning in Nazi Germany: Attack, Triumph. Terror in the European Context 1933-1945 – DOM, 2025 New Books discussion with Jenna Pittman. Thanks to dmf for the link. Urban … Continue reading →

Adam A. Blackler, An Imperial Homeland: Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa – Penn State University Press, 2022 At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements catered to the … Continue reading →

Matthew Benjamin Cole, Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century – University of Michigan Press, August 2025, print and open access After centuries of contemplating utopias, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers began to warn of dystopian futures. … Continue reading →

Joe Greenwood-Hau, Capital, Privilege and Political Participation – British Academy/Liverpool University Press August 2025 (print and open access) Capital, Privilege, and Political Participation examines how privilege and people’s perceptions of it relate to their involvement in politics. It treats people’s stocks … Continue reading →

Linda M. Lobao and Gregory Hooks eds., Rethinking Spatial Inequality – Edward Elgar, July 2025 This illuminating book offers a new perspective on social science inquiry into the spatial dimensions of societal well-being; addressing the key question of who gets … Continue reading →