Category Archives: People

Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On – The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, 11-12 Sept 2015

Posted on August 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Further details and programme for this conference – I’ll be giving the opening plenary talk on the recently published Théories et institutions pénales course. Places are free but limited and registration is required. Time Served: Discipline and Punish Forty Years On Friday … Continue reading →

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Books received – Shakespeare’s history plays, ‘Shakespeare’? and Yacobi

Posted on August 4, 2015 by stuartelden

Some books for the Shakespeare project, including the disputed Edward III, and Haim Yacobi’s new book, Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography, sent by the publisher on Haim’s request. I began reading Haim’s book as soon as it arrived – … Continue reading →

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Pip Thornton – ‘The meaning of light: seeing and being on the battlefield’

Posted on August 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Pip Thornton’s paper  “The meaning of light: seeing and being on the battlefield” has been published in Cultural Geographies. This paper was part of the sessions on ‘Terrain‘ Gastón Gordillo and I organised at the AAG earlier this year. Derek Gregory … Continue reading →

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Claudio Minca and Rory Rowan, On Schmitt and Space – now published with Routledge

Posted on July 31, 2015 by stuartelden

Claudio Minca and Rory Rowan, On Schmitt and Space – now published with Routledge. Currently only in expensive hardback, but paperback to follow. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the influential German legal and political thinker Carl Schmitt’s spatial … Continue reading →

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Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger – now available in print and open-access pdf

Posted on July 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Kostas Axelos, Introduction to a Future Way of Thought: On Marx and Heidegger, translated by Kenneth Mills, and edited and introduced by Stuart Elden. I’ve just received hard-copies of this book. It is now available to buy in print from Amazon as well as … Continue reading →

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Two posts on writing at The Sociological Imagination and An und für sich

Posted on July 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Two posts on writing at The Sociological Imagination and An und für sich. The first talks about writing being disconnected from the internet, and whether this works for different writers or not. It’s written by David Beer, reflecting on the … Continue reading →

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David Harvey discusses his recent work at Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi (May 2015 video)

Posted on July 24, 2015 by stuartelden

Via a comment on a post commenting on my post on writing after completing a book ms.

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How to make our cities open and democratic – Bradley Garrett TEDx talk (video)

Posted on July 23, 2015 by stuartelden

How to make our cities open and democratic – Bradley Garrett TEDxSouthamptonUniversity

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Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition – forthcoming in December 2015

Posted on July 22, 2015 by stuartelden

Perry Zurn and Andrew Dilts (eds.), Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition – forthcoming in December 2015 from Palgrave. I was one of the readers of the manuscript to provide an endorsement – it’s a very good and interesting … Continue reading →

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The week after completing a book – initial new work on Shakespeare and Foucault

Posted on July 17, 2015 by stuartelden

When I finished my first book, Mapping the Present, I remember asking a much more senior academic friend ‘what do I do now?’ His response was clear: ‘Write another one!’ This came back to me this week as I’ve been … Continue reading →

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