Author Archives: stuartelden

Stuart Hall: In Conversations

Posted on July 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall: In Conversations Explore the life, work and legacy of a thinker that some call the last of the great public intellectuals and a figure widely credited with being the founder of cultural studies: this man is Stuart Hall. … Continue reading →

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Rhetoric, Fascism and the Planetary: A Conversation between William Connolly and Nidesh Lawtoo

Posted on July 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Rhetoric, Fascism and the Planetary: A Conversation between William Connolly and Nidesh Lawtoo at The Contemporary Condition. As well as talking about Connolly’s recent book, Facing the Planetary, it also discusses themes from his next, the forthcoming Aspirational Fascism.

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Pamela L Gay, ‘The Unacknowledged Costs of Academic Travel’ at Medium

Posted on July 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Pamela L Gay, The Unacknowledged Costs of Academic Travel at Medium An interesting discussion of the procedures for academic travel and its reimbursement. It’s US focused, but the issue is much wider. I seem to be continually owed money by three … Continue reading →

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Remigiusz Ryziński discusses Foucault’s time in Poland

Posted on July 24, 2017 by stuartelden

Remigiusz Ryziński discusses his book Foucault w Warszawie, an account of the short period Foucault spent in Poland in the late 1950s – between his time in Uppsala and Warsaw. While the interview is in Polish, machine translation seems to … Continue reading →

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Marcus Doel’s Geographies of Violence in the Society and Space book series now published

Posted on July 19, 2017 by stuartelden

Marcus Doel’s book Geographies of Violence: Killing Time, Killing Space is now published. This is the third book to appear in the Society and Space book series I edit with Sage. We experience violence all our lives, from that very first scream … Continue reading →

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Free planners and guides for writing, planning and collaboration

Posted on July 18, 2017 by stuartelden

These look useful – free planners and guides for writing, planning and collaboration

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Raul Pacheco-Vega on ‘Narrowing the research thesis topic’

Posted on July 18, 2017 by stuartelden

Some good advice from Raul Pacheco-Vega on ‘Narrowing the research thesis topic’.

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Beginning work on the revision of Shakespearean Territories – and the climb that awaits at the end of it

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

Today I begin work on the revisions for Shakespearean Territories. At the end of this work – in about three weeks’ time – I’m off to Provence for a week of cycling, including Mont Ventoux.

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Prof. Anne Buttimer RIP

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Ireland after NAMA:
A message from Niamh Moore-Cherry, President of the Geographical Society of Ireland: “It is with sadness that I am letting you know that Prof Anne Buttimer died this morning, July 15. She had been…

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‘Edward Said’s ideas about power and identity still resonate today’ – CBC radio

Posted on July 17, 2017 by stuartelden

‘Edward Said’s ideas about power and identity still resonate today’ – CBC radio interview from 1993. Edward Said is considered to have been one of the world’s most eminent cultural and literary critics. A Palestinian Christian Arab who moved to the … Continue reading →

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