Author Archives: stuartelden

Warwick Institute of Advanced Study Visiting Fellowships

Posted on May 14, 2014 by stuartelden

Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study invites applications to its Visiting Fellowship Programme (Deadline 30 June 2014) – full details here.

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New Editor Positions: The Geographical Journal, Area and the RGS-IBG Book Series (Human)

Posted on May 14, 2014 by stuartelden

RGS-IBG journals and book series seek new editors.

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Austerity and Crisis/Emergency

Posted on May 14, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Governing Emergencies:
Initial details of a workshop at Durham on ‘Austerity and Emergency/Crisis’. It’s not formally part of the network, but obviously linked. If anyone is interested in attending or contributing then please get in contact with…

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Fudge, Judy and Strauss, Kendra (Eds) 2013 Temporary work, agencies and unfree labour, reviewed by Ben Rogaly

Posted on May 14, 2014 by stuartelden

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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Foucault Now (2014)

Posted on May 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
James Faubion (Editor), Foucault Now, Polity, February 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7456-6378-4 232 pages Publisher’s page Description Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend…

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Five apps I find really useful for my writing and blogging

Posted on May 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Five apps I find really useful – Evernote – Dropbox – Sanebox – Feedly – WasteNoTime Evernote – I use this as my main repository for notes, links, lists, etc. I appreciate that you can clip websites directly to it, or email things to a direct address. As … Continue reading →

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Books received – Foucault, Babich & Ginev, Chevallier

Posted on May 13, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve been trying not to accumulate books while in New York – despite living opposite Strand Books – to keep luggage weight down for the trip home. I am sure there is a small post mountain waiting for me back … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre and the devil – some thoughts from Angus Cameron

Posted on May 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Angus Cameron has some thoughts on one of Lefebvre’s little-known essays, ‘The Metamorphoses of the Devil’, which appeared in An Introduction to Modernity (now available for very little in the Verso Radical Thinkers series). In a very entertaining essay first published … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers – Beirut: Bodies in Public (9-11 October 2014)

Posted on May 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Call for papers for an interesting looking conference – full details here (thanks to Ghayde Ghraowi for the link). Beirut: Bodies in Public is a three-day workshop inviting artists and researchers to think through the interdisciplinary concerns surrounding performance in public space in … Continue reading →

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The Biopolitics of Biometrics: An Interview with Btihaj Ajana and David Beer

Posted on May 13, 2014 by stuartelden

The Biopolitics of Biometrics: An Interview with Btihaj Ajana, conducted by David Beer on the Theory, Culture & Society website. This interview focuses upon Btihaj Ajana’s recently published book Governing Through Biometrics: The Biopolitics of Identity (2013). Although the interview focuses centrally … Continue reading →

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