Category Archives: Politics

University of Surrey’s Politics department under threat

Posted on March 16, 2015 by stuartelden

University of Surrey’s Politics department is under serious threat. Apparently “the current staff of 14 lecturers/professors will be reduced to 5. The current staff have received their redundancy notices and will have to re-apply to one of the 5 positions. … Continue reading →

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Workshop at UNSW on The Birth of Territory and ‘Geopolitics, Geopower, Geometrics’

Posted on March 11, 2015 by stuartelden

My public lecture “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics” at University of New South Wales earlier this week was recorded by ABC Radio ‘Big Ideas‘, and I’ll hopefully be able to post the link soon. Paul Patton gave a very generous introduction … Continue reading →

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Rank Hypocrisies: the Insult of the REF by Derek Sayer – reviewed by Ron Johnston

Posted on March 9, 2015 by stuartelden

Rank Hypocrisies: the Insult of the REF by Derek Sayer – reviewed by Ron Johnston at Impact of Social Sciences.

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University of New South Wales – lecture and workshop this week

Posted on March 9, 2015 by stuartelden

10 March 2015, 4pm, “Territory from Shakespeare to Geo-politics”, Public Lecture, School of Humanities and Languages, John Goodsell 221/223, University of New South Wales –website; poster; abstract  In this talk I’ll be returning to the Shakespeare project for the first time in … Continue reading →

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Gastón Gordillo – Terrain as Insurgent Weapon (abstract)

Posted on March 7, 2015 by stuartelden

Gastón Gordillo shares an update on his ongoing work on terrain, for a forthcoming conference at UBC. Very sorry to miss this one – I’ll still be in Melbourne, talking about a related topic. Gastón and I have organised two … Continue reading →

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Brad Evans reviews Michael Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security at Antipode

Posted on March 6, 2015 by stuartelden

Brad Evans reviews Michael Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security: A Political Analytic of Finitude at Antipode. I’m looking forward to seeing this book when back in the UK.

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Freiburg will not replace Günter Figal in the ‘Heidegger’ Chair

Posted on March 5, 2015 by stuartelden

Story from the Daily Nous – ‘Heidegger’ chair not to be filled when Figal retires, but another analytic post, at a lower level, instead. Three updates at Daily Nous with more information. The University of Freiburg, the academic home of Günter Figal—who recently stepped … Continue reading →

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The Uncollected Foucault – some updates to the list with links

Posted on March 3, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault – uncollected notes, lectures and interviews – further updates to the list. This includes pieces which didn’t make it into Dits et écrits, but which are available in some form. I’ve provided links where I can, including some to files which are … Continue reading →

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Kate Sammler at Contrivers’ Review on The Birth of Territory

Posted on March 2, 2015 by stuartelden

Kate Sammler at Contrivers’ Review on The Birth of Territory. A broadly positive review though there are complaints about too many “details and tangential political thoughts” and ends with the suggestion that “derivative” and “distilled” summaries might be needed to reach a … Continue reading →

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New Perspectives Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and Eastern European Politics & IR

Posted on February 28, 2015 by stuartelden

New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central and Eastern European Politics & International Relations – relaunch of a journal. Flyer and call for papers.

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