Author Archives: stuartelden

Call for Papers

Posted on August 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographiesofresistance:
Geographies of Neoliberalism  and Resistance After the Crisis:  The State, Violence, and Labour An Interdisciplinary Conference from the  Departments of Geography and International Relations University of Oxford Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre February 15, 2014 Keynote Speaker:…

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Alexander Betts, Survival Migration

Posted on August 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Alexander Betts, Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement is now out. International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, … Continue reading →

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Mezzadra and Neilson, Border as Method

Posted on August 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson’s Border as Method, or, The Multiplication of Labor is now out. The table of contents and introduction are available as pdf here. Thanks to Charles Heller for the link. Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated … Continue reading →

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Mary Beard on ‘the damn footnotes’

Posted on August 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Mary Beard has a good discussion of footnotes in her TLS column. Here’s the beginning: I know what I like, and don’t like, in a footnote: an accurate and precise reference to what ever is being discussed (I mean not a … Continue reading →

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African Geographical Review – Special Issue Call for Papers

Posted on August 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Posted on behalf of Kevin DeJesus: African Geographical Review – Special Issue Call for Papers Out of Place, Into Extremis:        Critical Geographic Perspectives on the State of Forced Migration in Africa Guest Editors: Kevin M. DeJesus, Rhode Island College and Daisuke Maruyama, Kyoto … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade – third update

Posted on August 9, 2013 by stuartelden

See first and second updates for background to the book I’m writing (and the brief prospectus here). Recent progress has been slower than I’d have liked, as I’m in the middle of moving home and office. Ideally I would now … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – preview on Google books

Posted on August 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Substantial parts of The Birth of Territory – including most of the introduction – are now available on Google books. The publication date has slipped to September.

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Review – A Companion to Foucault (2013)

Posted on August 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Michael Maidan, Review of: A Companion to Foucault by Christopher Falzon,Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki (Editors) Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. This companion to the work of French thinker Michael Foucault offers an overview of his work, and…

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Proceedings of the fourth annual Conference of XVIIth century French literature

Posted on August 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Does anyone have access to Acta: Proceedings of the fourth annual Conference of XVIIth century French literature, a publication that on pages 22 and 23 summarises a 1972 lecture by Foucault entitled “Ceremony, Theatre, and Politics in the 17th Century”? Worldcat suggests … Continue reading →

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San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

Posted on August 7, 2013 by stuartelden

Details here – via The Guardian.

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