Author Archives: stuartelden

Doyle D. Calhoun, The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire – Duke University Press, October 2024 The open access introduction is available now. Throughout the French empire, from the Atlantic and the Caribbean to West and North … Continue reading →

Ingrid A. Medby, Arctic State Identity: Geography, History, and Geopolitical Relations – Manchester University Press, January 2025  This book sets out to answer what it means to hold a formal title as one of the eight ‘Arctic states’; is there … Continue reading →

Shannon Mattern, Library as Infrastructure – Places Journal Fascinating and beautifully illustrated piece on libraries.

Julie Zook and Kerstin Sailer (eds.), The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture, UCL Press, March 2022 (print and open access) The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions. It identifies … Continue reading →

Jo van Every – Spotlight on: Burnout I published my first post with “burnout” in the title, “Burnout is real”,  in 2022. We were just coming out of the most intense phase of the COVID pandemic disruptions. The term was … Continue reading →

Serene Richards, Biopolitics as a System of Thought – Bloomsbury, May 2024 Our contemporary mode of life is characterised by what Serene Richards in Biopolitics as a System of Thought calls: Smart Being. Smart Being believes in the solutions of techno-capital where living … Continue reading →

Colin Flint – interview at E-International Relations Colin Flint, a geographer by training, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at Utah State University. His research interests include geopolitics and peacebuilding. He is the author of Near and Far … Continue reading →