Category Archives: Books

Disclosure – issue on Security, with an interview with Jane Guyer, Stuart Elden, Russ Castronovo and Michael Hardt

Posted on September 25, 2013 by stuartelden

The new issue of the University of Kentucky journal DisClosure is now available. It is on the theme of Security, and includes excerpts from an interview with me from when I visited UK last year, alongside contributions from Jane Guyer, … Continue reading →

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radio interview on The Birth of Territory

Posted on September 16, 2013 by stuartelden

I was briefly interviewed earlier this afternoon on the Moncrieff show on Irish Newstalk radio. You can listen to the recording here – begins at about 22 minutes and goes up to 30 minutes. The interview was about The Birth … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on September 16, 2013 by stuartelden

An early book by Jane Bennett, Giddens’s The Politics of Climate Change, Kelly Oliver’s Technologies of Life and Death, and the new issues of Area, RIPE, British Academy Review and Law & Literature. The last has my piece on King … Continue reading →

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The Globalization of Space: Foucault and Heterotopia

Posted on September 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Heterotopian Studies has news of a forthcoming collection entitled The Globalization of Space: Foucault and Heterotopia.

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Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation – book series news

Posted on September 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Nik Heynen has news of changes to the editorial board of the Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation book series, along with news of the Neil Smith book prize.

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David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2

Posted on September 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Now out from Verso, David Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital: Volume 2. The first volume A Companion to Marx’s Capital appeared in 2010. Videos of the lectures on which these books are based are available at http://davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

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Books received – Global Politics and The Great University Gamble

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Author copies of Global Politics, and The Great University Gamble.

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The Birth of Territory kindle version available

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Amazon have released the Kindle edition. They have the physical copy down for release on 13th September. The University of Chicago Press page is already shipping the book and their own electronic version.

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Mary Beard on more footnotes

Posted on September 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Mary Beard follows up her previous column on footnotes (previously linked to) with another good discussion. Anyone who has read past p. 330 in The Birth of Territory will appreciate why I liked these two posts.

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Neil Brenner (ed.) Implosions/Explosions – forthcoming

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Jovis Verlag have a page up for Neil Brenner’s collection, Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical … Continue reading →

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