Author Archives: stuartelden

Writing Intellectual History after the “Age of Forms”: An Interview with Elías J. Palti – Journal of the History of Ideas blog – Part I and Part II In this interview, primary editors Jacob Saliba and Zac Endter speak with … Continue reading →

Johanna Vuorelma, Irony in International Politics – Edinburgh University Press, December 2024 Examines the use of ironic language among political leaders in international politics. Irony in International Politics investigates ironic language in international politics, focusing on how political leaders use irony … Continue reading →

Sam Halvorsen (ed.), Latin American Geographies – Routledge, March 2025 Latin American Geographies introduces student readers to cutting-edge scholarship on a range of topics from Indigenous geographies to sustainable development and dependency theory. The book is written primarily by a Latin … Continue reading →

Amin Erfani, Theatricality Beyond Disciplines – Intellect, October 2025 This book expands on theories of “theatricality” in French and critical studies, adopting a transdisciplinary approach that reaches beyond performance studies into poetry, media technology, translation, and psychoanalytic theory.  Building on Artaud’s … Continue reading →

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World – Penguin Random House, October 2024 A globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens’ rights. Beneath, above, and … Continue reading →

Michel Foucault, Entretiens radiophoniques (Radio Interviews) 1961-1983

Francis Young, Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples – Cambridge University Press, May 2025 The formal conversion to Christianity in 1387 of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania seemingly marked the end of Europe’s last … Continue reading →

Troels Schultz Larsen and Kristian Nagel Delica, Fragmenting Cities: The State, Territorial Stigmatization and Urban Marginality – Edward Elgar, 2025 Fragmenting Cities offers a conceptionally innovative and empirically detailed analysis of the surprising acceptance and normalization of state-based stigmatization and … Continue reading →

Efimia D. Karakantza, Alexandros Velaoras, and Marion Meyer (eds.), Ancient Necropolitics: Maltreating the Living, Abusing the Dead in Greek Antiquity – Brill, January 2025  This is the first collection of essays approaching aspects of Greek antiquity and its reception through … Continue reading →