Author Archives: stuartelden

Thomas Nail, The Figure of the Migrant – is now published from Stanford University Press. I provide one of the endorsements. Twenty pages are available to download at academia.edu This book offers a much-needed new political theory of an old phenomenon. … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights, Stanford University Press, 2015, Now available. Publisher’s page This book focuses on Michel Foucault’s late work on rights in order to address broader questions about the politics…

Originally posted on The page “Newfoundland Literature” does not exist:
Putting a piece of writing out into the world is a bit like tossing a pebble down a mountainside. Usually it clatters down alone, bouncing a bit off this outcrop…

A new photo essay at the Society and Space open site, on humanitarian aid in Kenya by Kevin Donovan.

The first issue of New Perspectives – the successor to the journal Perspectives, with a focus on central and Eastern Europe  – is now available online. Three pieces are open access: Johan van der Walt’s ‘The Literary Exception: Reflections on Agamben’s “Liberal Democratic” Political Theology … Continue reading →

Originally posted on multipliciudades:
The webpage of the Espais Crítics collective has now links to the set of presentations of the conference in tribute to the late Neil Smith. It was a remarkable and yet kind of sad occasion, given…

Neil Brenner/Urban Theory Lab’s recent exhibition at the Melbourne School of Design reviewed at the Society and Space open site by Louise Dorignon – an English version of a piece which first appeared in French.

Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On – a few thoughts after the Nottingham conference How we Write – open access collection edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari: thirteen essays on academic writing Foucault: The Birth of Power Update 3 – Théories … Continue reading →