Category Archives: Books

Michel Foucault and Jean-Pierre Peter – some thoughts on sources of ‘the abnormals’ and the case of Pierre Rivière

Posted on November 18, 2013 by stuartelden

In The Abnormals lecture course, Foucault refers to a veritable rogues’ gallery of murderers, cannibals and perverts. The latter term, of course, is one that he examines in terms of its historical emergence – what counts as a deviation, an … Continue reading →

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Atlas of migration in Europe launch event

Posted on November 17, 2013 by stuartelden

London, December 2nd 2013, launch of the Atlas of migration in Europe: A critical geography of migration policies. More details here. Thanks to Andrew Burridge for the link.

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Early Modern Literary Geographies – new book series with Oxford University Press

Posted on November 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Early Modern Literary Geographies is a new book series with Oxford University Press, under the editorship of Julie Sanders and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr. I’m delighted to be part of their advisory board. Here’s the series description: Influenced by the work of cultural … Continue reading →

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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 →

Posted in Jenny Edkins, My Publications, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Theory, Culture and Society, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

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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