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Interview with Stefan Kipfer – Gramsci as Geographer

Interview with Stefan Kipfer – Gramsci as Geographer in Historical Materialism (open access). Some interesting discussion of his relation to Lefebvre, among other themes. A French version of this interview was originally published at  http://revueperiode.net/gramsci-geographe-entretien-avec-stefan-kipfer/ Your research interests include a recurrent … Continue reading

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Problems in twentieth-century french philosophy – theme issue of Angelaki edited by Sean Bowden and Mark Kelly

Problems in twentieth-century french philosophy – theme issue of Angelaki edited by Sean Bowden and Mark Kelly. The Introduction is open access, the rest requires subscription. It is often said that thinking begins with problems, or that problems are the … Continue reading

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Penelope Anthias, Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco

Penelope Anthias, Limits to Decolonization: Indigeneity, Territory, and Hydrocarbon Politics in the Bolivian Chaco – now out with Cornell University Press. This is the first volume in a new series, Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment, edited by Wendy … Continue reading

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David Macey, The Lives of Michel Foucault – to be reissued by Verso in 2019, with Afterword by Stuart Elden

David Macey’s biography, The Lives of Michel Foucault will appear in a reissued edition with Verso in January 2019, with an afterword by me. Update: now published. Verso site. When he died of an AIDS-related condition in 1984, Michel Foucault had … Continue reading

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Catherine Millot, Life with Lacan reviewed by Stuart Jeffries in The Spectator

The English translation of Catherine Millot, Life with Lacan is reviewed by Stuart Jeffries in The Spectator The review is open access. Here’s Polity’s description of the book. ‘There was a time when I felt that I had grasped Lacan’s essential … Continue reading

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Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis – now out with Cambridge

Andreas Bieler and Adam David Morton, Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis – now out with Cambridge University Press This book assesses the forces of social struggle shaping the past and present of the global political economy from the perspective … Continue reading

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Michel Foucault -Mariana Valverde (2017)

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Mariana Valverde, Michel Foucault, Routledge, 2017 This book explores the theoretical contribution of Michel Foucault to the fields of criminology, law, justice and penology. It surveys both the ways in which the work of Foucault…

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Society and Space book series update – published and forthcoming titles

        Three books have been published so far in the Society and Space book series I edit with Sage: Dan Bulley, Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces Of Hospitality In International Politics Marcus Doel, Geographies of Violence: Killing Space, … Continue reading

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Interview with Rebecca Adler-Nissen at E-IR

Interview with Rebecca Adler-Nissen at E-IR Rebecca Adler-Nissen is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on International Relations, diplomacy, European integration and social media as well as fieldwork, participant observation and anthropological methods. … Continue reading

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Derek Gregory, Trauma Geographies – Antipode lecture, RGS-IBG, August 2018

Derek Gregory will give the Antipode lecture at the RGS-IBG conference in August 2018. The title is ‘Trauma Geographies’ and he says a bit about it here.

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