Author Archives: stuartelden

Stern review of Research Excellence Framework

Posted on July 29, 2016 by stuartelden

Lord Nicholas Stern’s review of the Research Excellence Framework is now available here. For those outside UK higher education, the REF is the means by which academic research is evaluated for league tables and funding. This independent review makes recommendations … Continue reading →

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Colin Gordon reviews the Cambridge Foucault Lexicon in History of the Human Sciences

Posted on July 28, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Colin Gordon reviews The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon in History of the Human Sciences (requires subscription). I hope a preprint will appear on Colin’s academia.edu page soon. It’s a very detailed review of a huge work,…

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Colin Gordon reviews the Cambridge Foucault Lexicon in History of the Human Sciences

Posted on July 27, 2016 by stuartelden

Colin Gordon reviews The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon in History of the Human Sciences (requires subscription). I hope a preprint will appear on Colin’s academia.edu page soon. It’s a very detailed review of a huge work, covering a wide range of … Continue reading →

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Reading Marx in 1965; Reading Althusser et. al. and Lefebvre in 2016 at the Verso blog

Posted on July 27, 2016 by stuartelden

I have a short piece at the Verso blog, entitled ‘Reading Marx in 1965; Reading Althusser et. al. and Lefebvre in 2016’. Some of the most important works of post-war French Marxism were published in 1965. Louis Althusser’s For Marx … Continue reading →

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Foucault, the Archive and the Writing of Intellectual History – audio of lecture

Posted on July 26, 2016 by stuartelden

At the end of June I gave the plenary lecture to my Warwick department’s annual conference. It was entitled ‘Foucault, the Archive and the Writing of Intellectual History’, and discussed the writing of the two books Foucault’s Last Decade and … Continue reading →

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Books received – Rankin, Lisle, Springer, Norris

Posted on July 26, 2016 by stuartelden

A second-hand copy of Chris Norris’s Deconstruction: Theory and Practice, Simon Springer’s The Anarchist Roots of Geography, Debbie Lisle’s Holidays in the Danger Zone and William Rankin’s After the Map. The last three were all sent by the publishers.

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Review of Foucault, Language, Madness and Desire in Cultural Geographies

Posted on July 26, 2016 by stuartelden

My brief review of Michel Foucault, Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature, translated by Robert Bonnano, is now available in the new issue of Cultural Geographies. The review requires subscription, but a preprint is available here.

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Society and Space Volume 34 Issue 4 now online

Posted on July 25, 2016 by stuartelden

New issue of Society and Space now online

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Debjani Ganguly, This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form

Posted on July 21, 2016 by stuartelden

Debjani Ganguly, This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form. In This Thing Called the World Debjani Ganguly theorizes the contemporary global novel and the social and historical conditions that shaped it. Ganguly contends that global literature … Continue reading →

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Felicity D. Scott, Outlaw Territories:Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency

Posted on July 21, 2016 by stuartelden

Recently out with MIT Press – Felicity D. Scott, Outlaw Territories:Environments of Insecurity/Architectures of Counterinsurgency. In Outlaw Territories, Felicity Scott traces the relation of architecture and urbanism to human unsettlement and territorial insecurity during the 1960s and 1970s. Investigating a … Continue reading →

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