Author Archives: stuartelden

Unlimited Migration in a Limited World, Saskia Sassen

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on synthetic zerØ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXB2tsiKR_E interesting presentation on what she calls the analytic tactics (working out of “epistemic indignation”) before method, which makes sense I think if we consider these terms along sociological lines rather than as strict categories,…

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Peter Johnson on Foucault’s heterotopia

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Peter Johnson has a review essay on Foucault’s heterotopia essay and its afterlife in the new issue of Geography Compass (requires subscription). See also the blog Heterotopian Studies that Peter runs.

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Territory, Politics, Governance – issue 2 published

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Vol 1 No 2 of Territory, Politics, Governance has just been published. Essays by Ananya Roy, Jamie Peck, Gerard Toal & John O’Loughlin and others, many open access. The whole of issue 1 (including pieces by Saskia Sassen, Kevin Cox and me) is … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

The new collection of Shakespeare and others’s Collaborative Plays (see also the news story on this in The Guardian); two issues of Theory, Culture & Society; and the International Politics and Performance collection – hot off the press. I have … Continue reading →

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Andrew Neal – the myth of Hadrian’s firewall

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Andrew Neal has a piece in The Scotsman on the likely impact of a Scottish independence vote on the UK’s national security infrastructure.

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Ann Laura Stoler (ed.) Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

I missed this when it came out in June, but an important looking collection edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination has been published by Duke University Press. Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of … Continue reading →

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Kathryn Yusoff on Project Anthropocene at Geocritique

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Kathryn Yusoff’s short essay “Project Anthropocene: a minoritarian manifesto for reoccupying the strata” is available at Geocritique.

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Charlotte Heath-Kelly – Politics of Violence

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

New book out from my Warwick colleague Charlotte Heath-Kelly – Politics of Violence: Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the Name. Great shame about the price though. Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and Žižek have long challenged the liberal separation of … Continue reading →

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A Symposium on Resistance – audio recordings

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

A Symposium on Resistance – audio recordings from the launch of Howard Caygill’s latest book On Resistance: A Philosophy of Defiance. Contributions from Jacqueline Rose, Peter Hallward, Costas Douzinas, Michael Dillon, Howard Caygill (thanks to Ayşe Mermutlu for the link).

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European maps of language groups – words for bear, church, beer, etc.

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

More maps here (thanks to Simon Springer for the link).

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