Category Archives: Neil Brenner

Planetary Urbanization

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Left Kentucky yesterday and now in Cambridge, Massachusetts – staying with Neil Brenner for a bit before the Yale conference on 13-14 April. Neil and I are co-teaching a seminar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design on Wednesday as … Continue reading →

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Cambridge discussion audio

Posted on February 20, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio recording of the discussion on 16 February 2012 with Adam Ramadan is now available. Many thanks to Adam for asking the questions and John Mason and the Cambridge University Geographical Society for inviting me and organising the event. Apart from a … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre and Urban Revolution in New York

Posted on January 19, 2012 by stuartelden

For those in the New York area, this series of conversations should be of interest – details here. Speakers include Stanley Aronowitz, Neil Brenner, Manu Goswami, Stefan Kipfer, Kristin Ross and others. Thanks to David Wachsmuth for the link.

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Kentucky-Harvard-Yale

Posted on December 5, 2011 by stuartelden

This has been a bit of a logistical challenge. I’m speaking in Kentucky to the Committee on Social Theory on March 30th. They’ve just sent me this nice poster advertising the series. I was also asked to speak at Yale … Continue reading →

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Neil Brenner – “The Urbanization Question, or, the Field Formerly Known as Urban Studies”

Posted on November 9, 2011 by stuartelden

Neil Brenner’s inaugural lecture at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard:

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‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ in Hebrew

Posted on October 9, 2011 by stuartelden

My ‘Land, Terrain, Territory’ paper is coming out in Hebrew translation. It will be in issue 4 of  Mafte’akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought  – a project based out of the Minerva Humanities Center at Tel Aviv University. It will appear under a … Continue reading →

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Israel/Palestine maps

Posted on September 23, 2011 by stuartelden

Whatever else the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN has achieved, it has brought discussion back to the centre of attention. The cartography of the region is, of course, highly political. This new piece in Political Geography (“Trapped in … Continue reading →

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Berkeley and Tucson

Posted on September 19, 2011 by stuartelden

Now back in the UK. Both visits were a lot of fun, and it was great to visit Berkeley for the first time – a lovely campus and great walks in the hills behind it – and Tucson again for … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre and Poulantzas review essay

Posted on September 9, 2011 by stuartelden

The new issue of Society and Space is out. Among the interesting papers is a review essay by Andrew Jonas of The Poulantzas Reader and the State, Space, World collection of Henri Lefebvre’s work that Neil Brenner and I edited. … Continue reading →

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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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