Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

Cities for People, Not for Profit

Posted on August 26, 2011 by stuartelden

Very interesting collection forthcoming in October – Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City, edited by Neil Brenner, Peter Marcuse and Margit Mayet – book details here. While on this topic, Kurt Iveson … Continue reading →

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Three New Books on Lefebvre

Posted on August 15, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve mentioned Lukasz Stanek’s book Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research and the Production of Theory before, but it is now out. Benjamin Fraser’s Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience: Reading the Mobile City should be out shortly, and Chris … Continue reading →

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Territory, Communication, Speed

Posted on August 15, 2011 by stuartelden

In his 1982 interview ‘Space, Knowledge and Power’, Foucault and Paul Rabinow discuss architecture in some detail. It was originally published in the journal Skyline, so this is not surprising. There are some interesting passages, which I’m going over for … Continue reading →

Posted in Carl Schmitt, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Neil Brenner, Territory | 7 Comments

“Sovereignty, Territory and the Imperium” – review essay by Karena Shaw

Posted on August 11, 2011 by stuartelden

An interesting review essay of John Agnew’s Globalization and Sovereignty; my Terror and Territory, and Ronnie D. Lipschutz’s The Constitution of Imperium has just appeared in Geopolitics (subscription required). Written by Karena Shaw of the School of Environmental Studies at the … Continue reading →

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Updates to Downloads and Talks

Posted on August 8, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve added three pieces to the ‘Free Downloads’ section – the RGS awards piece mentioned earlier today; a piece on Lefebvre in French that appeared in Actuel Marx (the English version later appeared in Historical Materialism, for which you would need … Continue reading →

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Society and Space issue 4 out

Posted on July 9, 2011 by stuartelden

This year’s issue 4 is now out. It contains papers on topics such as Lefebvre, border crossings, the world cup, bees, the city as assemblage and planning in East Jerusalem; along with an interview with Sandro Mezzandra, and four linked commentaries … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre on the State

Posted on May 31, 2011 by stuartelden

When we were putting together State, Space, World, Neil Brenner and I discussed many texts for inclusion. We couldn’t include everything, due to space considerations, and hopefully some of the texts that didn’t make that volume will be in a … Continue reading →

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Territorial Masquerades

Posted on May 27, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting newish blog called Territorial Masquerades by an anonymous political geographer . Mainly notes from reading so far. There are discussions of Lefebvre’s State, Space, World and the Space, Knowledge and Power: Foucault and Geography collection I co-edited, along with lots … Continue reading →

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Momentarily: Learning from Mega-Events

Posted on April 25, 2011 by stuartelden

Free e-book – Momentarily: Learning From Mega Events, available here. Strategic, simplified, spotless, homogenizing representations require a pluralistic response which engages the visual tactically. Unlike the image of Vancouver, the project’s category-defying qualities are not clear-cut nor easily pinned down. … Continue reading →

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More Lefebvre translations?

Posted on March 24, 2011 by stuartelden

Two publishers contact me on the same day about potential Lefebvre translations… I have some quite clear ideas of what of his so-far-untranslated work would be good, so hopefully this will lead to some new books in English.

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