Category Archives: Books

Books received

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

The new collection of Shakespeare and others’s Collaborative Plays (see also the news story on this in The Guardian); two issues of Theory, Culture & Society; and the International Politics and Performance collection – hot off the press. I have … Continue reading →

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Ann Laura Stoler (ed.) Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

I missed this when it came out in June, but an important looking collection edited by Ann Laura Stoler, Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination has been published by Duke University Press. Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of … Continue reading →

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Charlotte Heath-Kelly – Politics of Violence

Posted on November 12, 2013 by stuartelden

New book out from my Warwick colleague Charlotte Heath-Kelly – Politics of Violence: Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the Name. Great shame about the price though. Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and Žižek have long challenged the liberal separation of … Continue reading →

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David Lambert – Mastering the Niger

Posted on November 11, 2013 by stuartelden

David Lambert’s new book Mastering the Niger: James MacQueen’s African Geography and the Struggle over Atlantic Slavery has just been published by University of Chicago Press. In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of A … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – author meets critics session at the AAG

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Claudio Minca and Jeremy Crampton have organised an ‘author meets critics’ session on The Birth of Territory for the Association of American Geographers in Tampa next year. The panellists will be Juliet Fall, Alec Murphy, Joe Bryan and Anssi Paasi, with … Continue reading →

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Reassembling International Theory – new edited collection

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Coming out later this month, an interesting looking collection entitled Reassembling International Theory: Assemblage Thinking and International Relations, edited by Michele Acuto and Simon Curtis. Outrageous price of £45 for 136 pages though. What can ‘assemblage thinking’ contribute to international theory? Assemblages have been invoked … Continue reading →

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Rousseau – Property, Land, Territory

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell points to Rousseau’s ‘denunciation of property’ in the second discourse: The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, … Continue reading →

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David Tennant as Richard II @TheRSC – some thoughts

Posted on November 6, 2013 by stuartelden

I went to see Shakespeare’s Richard II in Stratford yesterday. David (Dr Who) Tennant was King Richard, but a very strong cast generally – Oliver Ford Davies as the Duke of York, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt, Nigel Lindsay … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2 – a brief review

Posted on November 5, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve previously posted about David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2 being published. I’ve now had a chance to read it, and to my mind it’s even better than the first volume A Companion to Marx’s Capital which appeared in 2010. … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on November 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Two books for the Althusser project; Marcelo Hoffman’s Foucault and Power; Michael Dear’s Why Walls Won’t Work; and the latest Society and Space.

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