Category Archives: Books

Books received – Explore Everything and Lifeblood

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

Two very interesting books in the post – Bradley Garrett’s stunningly illustrated and designed Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City and Matthew Huber’s Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom and the Forces of Capital. Thanks to the publishers for sending these.  

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Fionnuala O’Neill response to my The Geopolitics of King Lear

Posted on September 6, 2013 by stuartelden

In the same issue of Law and Literature that my paper “The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth” (free download) appears in, there is a piece by Fionnuala O’Neill entitled “Toward Tyranny: Geopolitics and Genre, A Response to Stuart Elden” (requires … Continue reading →

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Earth, Terricide, Geo-metrics

Posted on September 5, 2013 by stuartelden

I’ve now nearly finished writing my keynote lecture for the Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance workshop at the Balsillie School of International Affairs (September 19-20). The title is “Geo-metrics” (abstract here). This is the third in a sequence of … Continue reading →

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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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