Author Archives: stuartelden

Forthcoming papers in Society and Space

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Forthcoming papers in Society and Space – Natalie Oswin outlines some of the papers available online. Some of these will be in the next issue; some are from a forthcoming theme issue on ‘War, law and space’.

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Marina Warner, ‘Learning my Lesson’ – on Universities in the LRB

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Marina Warner, ‘Learning my Lesson’ – on Universities in the LRB. It takes her own story, and broadens it to apply far beyond the University of Essex. Here’s one key paragraph, but the whole thing is well worth reading. I … Continue reading →

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“A Period of Intense Debate about Marxist Philosophy”: An Interview with Étienne Balibar

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Translation of an interview with Étienne Balibar in Viewpoint. This text was first pub­lished in L’Human­ité on March 13, 2015. Jérome Skalski: Fifty years ago Louis Althusser’s For Marx, and, under his direc­tion, Read­ing Cap­i­tal, were pub­lished. What was the con­text of the debate at that … Continue reading →

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Governing Emergencies – Theory, Culture and Society theme edited by Peter Adey, Ben Anderson and Stephen Graham

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Governing Emergencies – Theory, Culture and Society theme edited by Peter Adey, Ben Anderson and Stephen Graham. Includes essays by Claudia Aradau, Stephanie Simon and Marieke de Goede, Stephen J Collier and Andrew Lakoff, among others. Papers require subscription.

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Politics of Place issue 2 available

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Politics of Place issue 2 available – visually looks great, including an interview with Bradley Garrett.

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Boğaziçi Chronicles, Interview with Michael Hardt: Empire, Sovereignty and New Struggles

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on My Desiring-Machines:
A new portion of an interview with Hardt is up at the Boğaziçi Chronicles site. The full interview (pdf) is here.

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Reflections on teaching the history of geography

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
I have a short piece in a forum on teaching the history of geography, organized by Innes Keighren for Progress in Human Geography. There are also contributions by Franklin Ginn, Scott Kirsch, Audrey Kobayashi, Simon Naylor and Jörn Seemann.…

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Interview with John Pickles

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Matt Wilson and I interviewed John Pickles recently about the history of critical cartography, the Friday Harbor meetings in 1993 and Brian Harley. This has now appeared in Cartographica as part of a special issue…

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Open Letter from Faculty, Emeriti and Librarians of the University of Toronto

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

Open Letter from Faculty, Emeriti and Librarians of the University of Toronto on the ongoing strike action – more here and on Twitter.

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Update on University of Surrey’s Politics department under threat

Posted on March 17, 2015 by stuartelden

University of Surrey’s Politics department update: There is a story in Times Higher Education but also some reports that the University is reconsidering. Facebook page ‘Save Surrey’s Politics Department‘ Twitter hashtag #savesurreypolitics petition to sign and share

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