Author Archives: stuartelden

Richard Carter-White and Claudio Minca, A Spatial Theory of the Camp: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Immunitarian State – Edward Elgar, February 2025 (open access)

Posted on March 31, 2025 by stuartelden

Richard Carter-White and Claudio Minca, A Spatial Theory of the Camp: Geopolitics, Biopolitics and the Immunitarian State – Edward Elgar, February 2025 (open access) The link for the entire book is at the bottom of the page This is an open … Continue reading →

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The Territory of the Vocabulary and the Vocabulary of Territory: Emile Benveniste 

Posted on March 30, 2025 by stuartelden

If I was writing The Birth of Territory again, I would certainly have found a little space for a brief discussion of Émile Benveniste and his Le Vocabulaire des institutions indo-européennes, now available in English again as the Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society and open access … Continue reading →

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Edwin D. Rose, Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 – University of Pittsburgh Press, March 2025

Posted on March 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Edwin D. Rose, Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 – University of Pittsburgh Press, March 2025 In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a period that marked the emergence of a global modernity—educated landowners, or “gentlemen,” dominated the development … Continue reading →

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Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined – Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2025

Posted on March 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Lea Ypi, Indignity: A Life Reimagined – Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2025 The author of Free returns with an extraordinary inquiry into historical injustice, dignity, truth, and imagination.  When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the … Continue reading →

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Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World, trans. Justin Clemens and Hellmut Munz – Edinburgh University Press, April 2023, paperback February 2025

Posted on March 28, 2025 by stuartelden

Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World, trans. Justin Clemens and Hellmut Munz – Edinburgh University Press, April 2023, paperback February 2025 Now in paperback

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Laleh Khalili, Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy – Verso, August 2025

Posted on March 27, 2025 by stuartelden

Laleh Khalili, Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy – Verso, August 2025 An eye-opening survey of how extractive industries power globalization and how to fight back, by one of the world’s leading experts on the oil … Continue reading →

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A panel discussion of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination, London Group of Historical Geographers, 27 May 2025, 5.30pm, online

Posted on March 27, 2025 by stuartelden

27 May 2025, 5.30pm, discussion of Chris Philo, Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination (Edinburgh University Press, June 2025) London Group of Historical Geographers

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MEGA (from the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism) – translated at Historical Materialism by Kaan Kangal

Posted on March 26, 2025 by stuartelden

MEGA (from the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism) – translated at Historical Materialism by Kaan Kangal Translation of the entry ‘MEGA’ in the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism (Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus[HKWM]), vol. 9/I (Hamburg: Argument, 2018), pp. 388-404. Part I written by Rolf … Continue reading →

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Robert Lucas Scott, Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique – University of Chicago Press, March 2025

Posted on March 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Robert Lucas Scott, Reading Hegel: Irony, Recollection, Critique – University of Chicago Press, March 2025 The relationship between Hegel and literary theory has for a long time been both contested and paradoxical. On the one hand, “theory” is often skeptical … Continue reading →

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Open Letter from CRMEP Students & Researchers on Kingston University’s Proposed Closure of the Department of Humanities

Posted on March 25, 2025 by stuartelden

Open Letter from CRMEP Students & Researchers on Kingston University’s Proposed Closure of the Department of Humanities

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