Author Archives: stuartelden

Judith Butler, Parting Ways reviewed at NDPR

Posted on December 14, 2012 by stuartelden

Judith Butler’s new book Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism is reviewed at NDPR.

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Books received

Posted on December 14, 2012 by stuartelden

The two Minnesota ones – Brown, The Primitive, the Aesthetic and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic and Schwenger, At the Borders of Sleep: On Liminal Literature – were pre-ordered when I did a review for them, as was Parvini, Shakespeare and Contemporary … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Gordon MacLeod’s tribute to Neil Smith at the Society and Space open site.

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Thnking Urban Worlds workshop – recordings and reflections

Posted on December 13, 2012 by stuartelden

The recordings from the Thinking Urban Worlds workshop in Durham last week are now available – Andy Merrifield, Stuart Elden, Simon Marvin, with an introduction by Colin McFarlane and discussant comments by Gordon MacLeod. There are also written reflections from Colin and Rob … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 13, 2012 by stuartelden

New issue of Society and Space out.

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Jeremy Bentham – Auto-Icon

Posted on December 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Jeremy Bentham’s preserved body sits in a glass case at UCL. A virtual version is now available online (via Tim Morton at Ecology without Nature).

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Posted on December 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Pop Theory:
There has been a flurry of interest in the theme of ‘planetary urbanization’ recently. Andy Merrifield has an essay on the theme of ‘Whither urban studies’, and there is a longer published version of his…

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Mitchell, Harcourt and Taussig on Occupy

Posted on December 13, 2012 by stuartelden

In Critical Inquiry, W.J.T. Mitchell, Bernard Harcourt and Michael Taussig discuss Occupy. Thanks to Alex Vasudevan for the link and some commentary on Mitchell. If journalism is the first draft of history, the following essays might be described as a … Continue reading →

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Andy Merrifield – The Politics of the Encounter

Posted on December 12, 2012 by stuartelden

University of Georgia Press have a page up for Andy Merrifield’s forthcoming book The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization. It’s part of their ever interesting Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation series.

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Posted on December 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on geographical imaginations:
Back in May the Bureau of Investigative Journalism described how local activists were using Twitter and other social media platforms to spread the news of US drone strikes in Yemen.  Haykal Bafana, a lawyer living…

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