Category Archives: Books

Shakespeare in Stratford

Posted on September 4, 2013 by stuartelden

One of the things I was looking forward to about being in the Midlands again was the proximity to Stratford-on-Avon. Susan and I went to see Titus Andronicus at the end of August, and I’ve booked tickets for As You … Continue reading →

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Making edited collections work – a publisher’s perspective

Posted on September 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Rowman and Littlefield International offer some interesting perspectives and advice (see also the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog, where three people offer defences of edited collections – I’ve previously linked to this.)

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Terricide – RGS-IBG audio available

Posted on September 2, 2013 by stuartelden

My talk at the recent RGS-IBG conference is available here. This was part of a session on Geo-social formations: Capitalism and the Earth (details here and here), organised by Arun Saldanha, Kathryn Yusoff and Nigel Clark. Terricide – Lefebvre, Geopolitics and the Killing … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on August 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Two reissues of Foucault books, Joshua Barkan’s Corporate Sovereignty, David Farrell Krell’s Derrida and our Animal Others, Sloterdijk’s In the World Interior of Capital, and Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway.

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Global Politics: A New Introduction – second edition published

Posted on August 29, 2013 by stuartelden

The second edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction, edited by Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss, has now been published. There is also a companion website. My chapter in here is entitled ‘Why is the world divided territorially?’ All the … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory is published

Posted on August 27, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve just received my advance copy of The Birth of Territory, and additional copies have been sent by the warehouse. The Chicago page for the book has the book listed as published, and orders from them direct will be sent now … Continue reading →

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Terricide and Geo-metrics

Posted on August 27, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve had to put the Foucault work to one side – first because of moving, with the Foucault books somewhere in the piles of book-boxes, and now because I have a couple of upcoming talks. The first is at the … Continue reading →

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The Geopolitics of King Lear – pdf available

Posted on August 19, 2013 by stuartelden

My article ‘The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth’ has now been published in Law and Literature, Vol 25 No 2, pp. 147-65. You can download the article freely here. I’m impressed by the way the University of California Press allow … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on August 13, 2013 by stuartelden

Mainly some books from Routledge in recompense for review work, but also Shiloh Krupar’s Hot Spotter’s Report and the new issue of Geographica Helvetica (which included my piece ‘Leibniz and Geography‘.

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Alexander Betts, Survival Migration

Posted on August 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Alexander Betts, Survival Migration: Failed Governance and the Crisis of Displacement is now out. International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, … Continue reading →

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