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Kevin Potter, Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025

Posted on May 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Kevin Potter, Poetics of the Migrant: Migrant Literature and the Politics of Motion – Edinburgh University Press, paperback May 2025 Since the 1980s, readers and scholars alike have celebrated migrant literature for not only depicting migration, but for inspiring reflections … Continue reading →

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Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, August 2025

Posted on May 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers – Bloomsbury, August 2025 This book has been put back to August 2025, but looking forward to this. ‘Richard Wilson’s meticulously researched, powerfully argued and brilliantly written account of Shakespeare’s 20th-century fascist followers is not … Continue reading →

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Dmirti Shalin, Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination – Routledge, December 2024 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on May 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Dmirti Shalin, Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination – December 2024 Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffman’s scholarship but no extant biography of Erving Goffman. The chief reason … Continue reading →

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Anna Jurkevics, Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds – Oxford University Press, April 2025

Posted on May 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Anna Jurkevics, Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds – Oxford University Press, April 2025 Contested Territory presents a critical, non-sovereign theory of territorial rights capable of responding to border-defying global crises such as land dispossession, mass … Continue reading →

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Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 – Cambridge University Press, September 2024 and New Books Network discussion

Posted on May 26, 2025 by stuartelden

Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 – Cambridge University Press, September 2024 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is now a New Books network discussion with Lily Goren Across Italy in … Continue reading →

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The Early Edward Said, Michel Foucault and Jonathan Swift

Posted on May 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Given all his other achievements, Edward Said’s role in bringing Foucault’s work to an anglophone audience is perhaps understated today. His 1971 essay “Abecedarium culturae”, in Northwestern’s literary journal TriQuarterly was a significant piece on so-called “structuralism”, and the following year’s “Michel … Continue reading →

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Michel Foucault, Archéologie des sciences humaines: Cours São Paulo (1965) – ed. Philippe Sabot, EHESS/Seuil/Gallimard, May 2025

Posted on May 24, 2025 by stuartelden

Michel Foucault, Archéologie des sciences humaines: Cours. São Paulo (1965) – ed. Philippe Sabot, EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, May 2025 No publisher page yet, but starting to appear in online bookstores. Update July 2025: Seuil’s page is here. À l’automne 1965, Michel Foucault … Continue reading →

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Reassessing Power: Foucault’s Legacy in Historical and Contemporary Research – Gdansk, 17-19 July 2025

Posted on May 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Reassessing Power: Foucault’s Legacy in Historical and Contemporary Research – Gdansk, 17-19 July 2025

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Vanessa Grossman, A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France – Yale University Press, November 2024

Posted on May 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Vanessa Grossman, A Concrete Alliance: Communism and Modern Architecture in Postwar France – Yale University Press, November 2024 The compelling story of the significant relationship between communism and modern architecture in postwar France The massive reshaping of French cities that took … Continue reading →

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Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror – University of Chicago Press, November 2025

Posted on May 23, 2025 by stuartelden

Keith Michael Baker, Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror – University of Chicago Press, November 2025 952 pages! A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution—Jean-Paul Marat. Who better to pen an authoritative biography … Continue reading →

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