Author Archives: stuartelden

Cycling in Provence, including Mont Ventoux

Posted on August 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Two years ago I posted about a cycling holiday in Provence, and I’ve just been back for four days. This time Susan and I went together, and she did a series of long hikes while I did some long rides … Continue reading →

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Foucault: The Birth of Power update 1 – initial work and another visit to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Posted on August 10, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s Last Decade is now in production. Over the past couple of weeks I have turned in earnest to the book on the earlier period, entitled Foucault: The Birth of Power. The initial work on this book was taking all … Continue reading →

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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on August 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Raul Pacheco-Vega on academic writing, and breaking with usual practices 7 Critical Theory books that came out in July 2015 Ian Hacking’s Collège de France courses online Michel Foucault’s Collège de France Lectures (1970-1984): 13 Years at the Collège, 13 Seminars at Columbia Ashgate … Continue reading →

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‘The worst piece of peer review I’ve ever received’ – stories in the Times Higher Education

Posted on August 9, 2015 by stuartelden

‘The worst piece of peer review I’ve ever received‘ – stories in the Times Higher Education.

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Gastón Gordillo on The Insurgent Underground

Posted on August 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Very interesting piece by Gastón Gordillo on his Space and Politics blog – The Insurgent Underground.

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Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory and Laura Suarsana (eds.) Geographies of Knowledge and Power

Posted on August 8, 2015 by stuartelden

An interesting-looking, but again expensive, collection: Peter Meusburger, Derek Gregory and Laura Suarsana (eds.) Geographies of Knowledge and Power. Interest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated in the … Continue reading →

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Native Land

Posted on August 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Society for Radical Geography, Spatial Theory, and Everyday Life:
Native Land is a project that maps indigenous territory in Canada. Visitors can input a Canadian address and the site displays the indigenous land occupied as well as…

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(In)human Terrain

Posted on August 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
It’s been an age since I looked at the US military’s attempt to ‘weaponise culture’ in its counterinsurgency programs (see ‘The rush to the intimate’: DOWNLOADS tab), but Roberto Gonzalez has kept his eyes on…

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Janae Sholtz, The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political – reviewed at NDPR

Posted on August 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Janae Sholtz, The Invention of a People: Heidegger and Deleuze on Art and the Political – reviewed at NDPR by Antonio Calcagno. The topic sounds interesting, and the review notes that Sholtz discusses Kostas Axelos’s work as a way of developing Heidegger’s … Continue reading →

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Nick Blomley, ‘The Territory of Property’ in Progress in Human Geography

Posted on August 8, 2015 by stuartelden

Nicholas Blomley, ‘The Territory of Property‘, Progress in Human Geography (requires subscription) – an important piece on this question. The pervasive and important territorial dimensions of property are understudied, given the tendency to view territory through the lens of the state. Viewing … Continue reading →

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