Author Archives: stuartelden

Professor Saba Mahmood to give Society and Space lecture at the 2016 AAG

Posted on January 23, 2016 by stuartelden

News of the Society and Space lecture at the 2016 AAG meeting.

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Springer acquire Palgrave, and future Foucault translations

Posted on January 22, 2016 by stuartelden

Springer have acquired Palgrave as part of a merger with Macmillan – details here. Palgrave publish the translations of Foucault’s Collège de France lectures. Graham Burchell tells me that Subjectivity and Truth has only just gone into production, as result of changes at the press, … Continue reading →

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New issue of Antipode including Gregory, ‘The Natures of War’ and Lefebvre, ‘The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology’

Posted on January 21, 2016 by stuartelden

The new issue of Antipode is out, and includes Derek Gregory’s ‘The Natures of War’ and Henri Lefebvre, ‘The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology‘. The second piece is translated by Matthew Dennis, and edited by Adam David Morton … Continue reading →

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Moving Together: conference at Durham

Posted on January 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Details of a conference at Durham in May

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In Memoriam: Benedict Anderson (1936-2015) by Vicente L. Rafael

Posted on January 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Vicente Rafael on Benedict Anderson at the Society and Space open site.

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Jeroen Vandaele on translations of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir

Posted on January 20, 2016 by stuartelden

Jeroen Vandaele, ‘What is an author, indeed: Michel Foucault in translation‘, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, Vol 24 No 1, 2016, pp. 76-92 (requires subscription). A very interesting piece which discusses translations of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir with lots of examples and comparisons. Though … Continue reading →

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Foucault: the Birth of Power Update 11: clearing the decks and beginning to move from Foucault to Shakespeare

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

The UCL talk last week was the last one in the diary until September – a very deliberate choice to open up some time that needed quite a bit of forward-planning to achieve. I might do one or two book … Continue reading →

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Five strategies to get your academic writing “unstuck”

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

‘Five strategies to get your academic writing “unstuck”‘from Raul Pacheco-Vega at the LSE Impact of Social Science blog. This is a repost from his own blog, and the first of a series.

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Foucault and the Groupe Information Santé – a bibliography

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

Foucault’s involvement with the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons is fairly well-known, with important collections of documentary material published in French, a forthcoming English translation of material, and a growing secondary literature in French and English. His involvement with the Groupe … Continue reading →

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Derek Gregory’s ‘Reach from the Sky’ Tanner lectures

Posted on January 19, 2016 by stuartelden

Last week I took the short trip from London to Cambridge to attend Derek Gregory’s Tanner lectures – ‘Reach from the sky: aerial violence and the everywhere war’. The lectures covered a lot, from early aircraft to the Second World … Continue reading →

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