Category Archives: Books

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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Foucault’s Last Decade – third update

Posted on August 9, 2013 by stuartelden

See first and second updates for background to the book I’m writing (and the brief prospectus here). Recent progress has been slower than I’d have liked, as I’m in the middle of moving home and office. Ideally I would now … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory – preview on Google books

Posted on August 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Substantial parts of The Birth of Territory – including most of the introduction – are now available on Google books. The publication date has slipped to September.

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New Heidegger Research – book series

Posted on August 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for proposals for a new book series with Rowman International. New Heidegger Research publishes work by, about, and provoked by Martin Heidegger. The goal of the series is to promote informed and critical dialogue that breaks new philosophical ground … Continue reading →

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Books received – including Foucault, Power, Truth, Strategy

Posted on August 2, 2013 by stuartelden

Five interesting books. Two are older books by authors whose other work I’ve liked – Badie and Birnbaum’s The Sociology of the State and Adriana Caverero, Relating Narratives – that I got for review work. I got hold of François … Continue reading →

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