Author Archives: stuartelden

Revista Urban issue 3 and call for papers

Posted on May 7, 2012 by stuartelden

The Spanish journal Revista Urban issue 3 is now out. It’s a theme issue on Conflicts of contemporary cities. It includes articles by Don Mitchell, Alain Bertho, Fabrizio Bottini & Maria Cristina Gibelli, Cristina Fernández & Fernando Roch, Julio Soria … Continue reading →

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Geographica Helvetica relaunch

Posted on May 7, 2012 by stuartelden

The venerable Swiss geography journal Geographica Helvetica is being relaunched next year with a new editorial team – Francisco Klauser, Ola Söderström and Benedikt Korf. I’ve accepted an invitation to be part of the new editorial board. The plan is … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden
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John Updike’s 6 Rules for Constructive Criticism

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

In The Atlantic. While these are intended for reviews of fiction, many apply to the review of academic books. They were written in the 1970s, so perhaps that explains his use of male pronouns alone. Here are the first three – the others, and … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

This was added in comments to a previous post, but worth greater visibility.

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Political Theology and Early Modernity

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting looking collection edited by Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton, with a postface by Etienne Balibar. Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and … Continue reading →

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Pirate Radical Philosophy?

Posted on May 6, 2012 by stuartelden

The latest issue of Radical Philosophy has an interesting piece entitled ‘Pirate Radical Philosophy’, which is free to download. It raises questions about open access, piracy, copyright and the digital humanities. It is followed by a brief statement from the … Continue reading →

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Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power

Posted on May 5, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ll be speaking at a conference on Political Geology: Stratigraphies of Power on 21 June at Lancaster University  – I’ll be giving an abbreviated version of the ‘Fossils’ paper I gave in Canberra and Macau last year. Thanks to Kathryn Yusoff … Continue reading →

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Mark Purcell on Lefebvre, State, Space, World

Posted on May 5, 2012 by stuartelden

There is a very generous review of Lefebvre’s State, Space, World collection by Mark Purcell in the new issue of Social and Cultural Geography (requires subscription). [Update: Mark has posted the whole thing here] Let me say this plainly: this is … Continue reading →

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Deborah Cowen website

Posted on May 4, 2012 by stuartelden

My friend and co-editor of Society and Space, Deborah Cowen, has a nicely designed website about her work. My work is concerned with the politics of space and questions of citizenship. I am captivated by the ways groups claim space, … Continue reading →

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