Author Archives: stuartelden

Background reading on the English riots

Posted on August 26, 2011 by stuartelden

Two of the best pieces I read on the recent English riots were by Owen Hatherley and Owen Jones. Their recently published books (both with Verso) are really worth reading as background to the context in which these events took … Continue reading →

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Bomb in UN building in Abuja

Posted on August 26, 2011 by stuartelden

Breaking news of a bomb at the UN building in Abuja. BBC News and The Guardian, for instance. Susan works in the UN building in Kano, which has been closed as a precaution. She’s regularly in the Abuja one too, … Continue reading →

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Cities for People, Not for Profit

Posted on August 26, 2011 by stuartelden

Very interesting collection forthcoming in October – Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City, edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayet – book details here. While on this topic, Kurt Iveson … Continue reading →

Posted in David Harvey, Edward Soja, Henri Lefebvre, Neil Brenner | 1 Comment

Foucault audio

Posted on August 26, 2011 by stuartelden

A collection of audio recordings of Foucault – in both English and French – can be found here (via Clare O’Farrell’s Foucault News blog). Some of these have been available before, and some of the dates are wrong. The last ’11 … Continue reading →

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Oliver Belcher on writing

Posted on August 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Oliver is a PhD student at UBC, and offers some detailed and interesting reflections here.

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Senior Fellowships at Durham

Posted on August 25, 2011 by stuartelden

In 2011-12 Durham University is launching a new EU-sponsored Fellowship scheme (Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise – DIFeREns) that will allow it to gather together scholars, researchers, policy makers or practitioners from around the world and across the … Continue reading →

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Perry Anderson on the historical novel

Posted on August 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Fairly interesting piece in the London Review of Books – discussing the differences between Lukács and Jameson’s Marxist accounts of the historical novel and examples such as Tolstoy, Scott, Lampedusa and Dumas.

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Juan Cole on Libya

Posted on August 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Juan Cole’s Informed Comment is always worth reading, and this piece from his blog and reprinted on the CNN blog on the ‘Top ten myths about the Libya war’ is worth a look (the CNN link comes via Graham Harman).

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International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference

Posted on August 23, 2011 by stuartelden

The 36th International Association for Philosophy and Literature conference will be held in Tallinn, 28 May – 3 June 2012. Further details here. The theme is ‘Archeologies of the Future: Tracing Memories, Imagining Spaces’.

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XV International Conference of Historical Geographers

Posted on August 23, 2011 by stuartelden

To be held in Prague, August 6-10 2012. Further details here (website) and here (pdf). I went to the last one of these, held every three years, in Kyoto. It was a great conference, but I particularly appreciated the hospitality and … Continue reading →

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