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Luna Vives, The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe – Fernwood, September 2025

Posted on June 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Luna Vives, The Gates of the Sea: Migration and Rescue at the Edges of Europe – Fernwood, September 2025 The Gates of the Sea examines the paradoxes of maritime search and rescue at Europe’s frontier. Focusing on Spain, Luna Vives explores how governments … Continue reading →

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Foucault, “Les Hermaphrodites” – forthcoming with Gallimard in September 2025

Posted on June 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Foucault, “Les Hermaphrodites” – forthcoming in September 2025. France 24 reports on this here. Not that many details, except it will be with Gallimard, and have a preface by Arianna Sforzini and a postface by Éric Fassin. The text is … Continue reading →

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Clive Barnett’s website Pop Theory back online

Posted on June 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Clive Barnett’s website Pop Theory is back online The personal website of Prof. Clive Barnett, who sadly and unexpectedly passed away in December 2021 is being maintained by colleagues to enable ongoing access to Clive’s work held here. The site … Continue reading →

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Frank Jacob (ed.), Rosa Luxemburg: Periphery and Perception -Büchner Verlag, 2024 (print and open access)

Posted on June 12, 2025 by stuartelden

Frank Jacob (ed.), Rosa Luxemburg: Periphery and Perception -Büchner Verlag, 2024 (print and open access) Rosa Luxemburg was a critical thinker and author of many political and social reflections which to readers of today seem quite up to date. Particularly … Continue reading →

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Remembering / Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy – Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025

Posted on June 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Remembering / Forgetting Foucault: Reassessing a Critical Legacy, Maison Française, Oxford, 16 June 2025 Registration and further details at the above link Nearly forty years after the death of Michel Foucault, the time may be ripe for a critical reassessment … Continue reading →

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Lipokmar Dzüvichü, Manjeet Baruah eds. At the Margins of Empire: Frontiers and Boundaries in British India, London: Routledge, May 2025

Posted on June 11, 2025 by stuartelden

Lipokmar Dzüvichü, Manjeet Baruah eds. At the Margins of Empire: Frontiers and Boundaries in British India, London: Routledge, May 2025 Empire building in British India was inseparably tied to the processes of frontier-making and the creation of boundaries. Through a … Continue reading →

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Books received – Quinn, Stonebridge, Harari, Donato, Anheim & Pasquali, Kojève, Jakobson, Wilson, Fall

Posted on June 11, 2025 by stuartelden

A pile of mostly recently bought books, including Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History; Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience; Etienne Anheim and Paul Pasquali, Bourdieu et Panofsky: … Continue reading →

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May Hawas and Bruce Robbins eds., Teaching Politically: Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy – Fordham University Press, July 2025

Posted on June 10, 2025 by stuartelden

May Hawas and Bruce Robbins eds., Teaching Politically: Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy – Fordham University Press, July 2025 Culture is inextricable from politics. This includes the politics of who we are, as teachers, intellectuals, writers, cultural workers, and … Continue reading →

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Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, Plurihistoricity On the Historical Cultures of Extinction, Justice, and the Historical Profession – Routledge, July 2025

Posted on June 9, 2025 by stuartelden

Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, Plurihistoricity On the Historical Cultures of Extinction, Justice, and the Historical Profession – Routledge, July 2025 This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions of historical change in technological utopias of … Continue reading →

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Gillian Rose and the Indo-Europeanists

Posted on June 8, 2025 by stuartelden

While I’ve been working on my Indo-European thought project, I’ve looked at a few books from the University of Warwick’s library which came from the Gillian Rose collection. Some of the books from that collection could not be borrowed – ones … Continue reading →

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