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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 12: Another trip to Paris and submission of the manuscript

Posted on March 9, 2016 by stuartelden

I’ve spent most of my time since the last update working on Shakespeare, but I made a trip to Paris in February to do some further work on Foucault. At Richelieu site I continued working on the manuscripts, moving to boxes … Continue reading →

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Interviews about writing – in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Posted on March 9, 2016 by stuartelden

Interviews about writing – in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Lots of good advice and different perspectives.

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Subject to truth: Before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s (2016)

Posted on March 9, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Stephen Legg, Subject to truth: Before and after governmentality in Foucault’s 1970s, Environment and Planning D, February 25, 2016 doi: 10.1177/0263775816633474, Abstract In this article, I situate Foucault’s governmentality analytics between his first lecture course…

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Sur les toits – film screening and discussion, 18 May 2016, University of Warwick

Posted on March 8, 2016 by stuartelden

  The evening before the Political Geography graduate conference, on 18th May 2016, there will be a film screening and discussion of Sur les toits [On the roofs] with director Nicolas Drolc, Oliver Davis, Marijn Nieuwenhuis and me. The film looks … Continue reading →

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Books received – Extraterritorialities, Elemental Ecocriticism, State Phobia and Civil Society and Shakespeare

Posted on March 8, 2016 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books. I have a chapter in Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert’s collection Elemental Ecocriticism, and Mitchell Dean and Kaspar Villadsen’s State Phobia and Civil Society were both sent by publishers, and … Continue reading →

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CFP Third Warwick Graduate Conference on Political Geography 19-20 May 2016

Posted on March 8, 2016 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
Please consider submitting a paper for the next Warwick Graduate Conference in Political Geography, held at the University of Warwick on 19-20 May, 2016. The topic of this year’s conference is: “(Dis)Assembling state spaces: Conceptualising…

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10 Critical Theory books that came out in February 2016

Posted on March 5, 2016 by stuartelden

critical-theory.com has another useful roundup of recent books… Guattari, Reber, Dean, Verso Radical Thinkers Set 12 and more…

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Henri Lefebvre: Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics of Land – project funding from the ISRF

Posted on March 4, 2016 by stuartelden

I’m pleased to announce that along with Adam David Morton (Political Economy, University of Sydney) I have been awarded a small grant from the Independent Social Research Foundation for the project ‘Henri Lefebvre’s writings on Rural Sociology, Ground Rent and the Politics … Continue reading →

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Society and Space Volume 34 Issue 2 now online

Posted on March 3, 2016 by stuartelden

New issue of Society and Space now online – requires subscription

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The Biopolitics of Birth: Michel Foucault, the Groupe Information Santé and the Abortion Rights Struggle – in Viewpoint Magazine

Posted on March 3, 2016 by stuartelden

“The Biopolitics of Birth: Michel Foucault, the Groupe Information Santé and the Abortion Rights Struggle” – in Viewpoint Magazine (open access). This is an edited excerpt from the manuscript of my book Foucault: The Birth of Power, Polity Press, forthcoming 2017. Also … Continue reading →

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