Author Archives: stuartelden

“Europe After The Minotaur”: free e-book from the new Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis

Posted on January 28, 2015 by stuartelden

“Europe After The Minotaur” – free e-book from the new Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, available from Zed books. You need to register, but it’s a quick process. The book contains excerpts from his longer book The Global Minotaur. Europe After the … Continue reading →

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Franco Moretti on Lukács’s Theory of the Novel – Centenary Reflections

Posted on January 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Franco Moretti on Lukács’s Theory of the Novel – Centenary Reflections, in New Left Review (open access).

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The Birth of Territory reviewed in Theory, Culture and Society

Posted on January 27, 2015 by stuartelden

The Birth of Territory is reviewed in Theory, Culture and Society by Dennis Crow (open access). Here’s the first paragraph: Elden deserves every accolade he receives for a remarkable book. That phrase might suffice for a review, but it would … Continue reading →

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Ebola reading list – some updates

Posted on January 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Aside from the theme issue mentioned earlier, I’ve made some other updates to the Ebola reading list on this site.

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CFP – RGS IBG Annual International Conference 2015: Dialectical Geographies

Posted on January 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Call for Papers RGS IBG Annual International Conference 2015: Dialectical Geographies Session organiser: Camilla Royle, Department of Geography, King’s College London Dialectical methodologies call for an engagement with dynamism, change, development, antagonism, contradiction and totality. Critical geographers from various backgrounds have described … Continue reading →

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New issue of Limn on “Ebola Ecologies”

Posted on January 27, 2015 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Governing Emergencies:
Issue 5 of Limn is now available and focuses on the 2014 Ebola outbreak. It is a great resource for anyone interested in global biosecurity emergencies and how global health norms, logics and techniques can be…

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Clayton Howard reviews Amy Howard’s More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing

Posted on January 26, 2015 by stuartelden

a new review at the Society and Space open site.

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Foucault’s Last Decade – Update 19: a nearly complete first draft

Posted on January 23, 2015 by stuartelden

Since the last update I’ve spent two long days working on the individual chapter files, checking and rechecking things, filling in references, and reorganising some things. In particular I reworked all the parts on the lettres de cachet. I’ve decided … Continue reading →

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