Category Archives: Politics

Counter-terrorism and security bill is a threat to freedom of speech at universities – letter in The Guardian

Posted on February 4, 2015 by stuartelden

“Counter-terrorism and security bill is a threat to freedom of speech at universities”, letter in The Guardian from UK academics, in opposition to government plans. I’m one of over five hundred signatories (full list here). More on this in The Guardian and The Independent. … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s The Punitive Society – forthcoming in English in June 2015

Posted on February 1, 2015 by stuartelden

Foucault’s 1973 lectures On The Punitive Society are forthcoming in English in June August 2015. I have a review of the French text at Berfrois (open access); and a review essay forthcoming in Historical Materialism (preprint here). These thirteen lectures on the ‘punitive … Continue reading →

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Grégoire Chamayou – A Theory of the Drone published and excerpt available

Posted on January 30, 2015 by stuartelden

The translation of Grégoire Chamayou’s A Theory of the Drone is now published. An excerpt is available open access at Asymptote. Derek Gregory discussed the original French version of this book extensively on his Geographical Imaginations site. You can read my … Continue reading →

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Neoliberalism + Biopolitics – Conference at Berkeley, 27-28 Feb 2015 – with Balibar, Brown, Harcourt, Mbembe…

Posted on January 29, 2015 by stuartelden

Neoliberalism + Biopolitics – Conference at Berkeley, 27-28 Feb 2015. Speakers include Étienne Balibar, Wendy Brown, Bernard Harcourt, and Achille Mbembe… Over the past two decades neoliberalism and biopolitics have emerged as essential terms for critical theorists of all stripes attempting to analyze ongoing … Continue reading →

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“Europe After The Minotaur”: free e-book from the new Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis

Posted on January 28, 2015 by stuartelden

“Europe After The Minotaur” – free e-book from the new Finance Minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis, available from Zed books. You need to register, but  it’s a quick process. The book contains excerpts from his longer book The Global Minotaur. Europe After the … Continue reading →

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The Birth of Territory reviewed in Theory, Culture and Society

Posted on January 27, 2015 by stuartelden

The Birth of Territory is reviewed in Theory, Culture and Society by Dennis Crow (open access). Here’s the first paragraph: Elden deserves every accolade he receives for a remarkable book.  That phrase might suffice for a review, but it would … Continue reading →

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Power and Space in the City Conversation #1 – Powerful Urban Territories (video of UCL discussion)

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

Power and Space in the City Conversation #1 – Powerful Urban Territories. The video of a UCL discussion from late last year is now available. The panellists are me, Allan Cochrane and Wendy Pullan, and it is introduced by Liza … Continue reading →

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Marijn Nieuwenhuis, A Right to Breathe

Posted on January 21, 2015 by stuartelden

Marijn Nieuwenhuis, ‘A Right to Breathe’ at Critical Legal Thinking.

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Étienne Balibar: Three words for the dead and the living

Posted on January 19, 2015 by stuartelden

The Verso blog has the English translation of Étienne Balibar’s “Three words for the dead and the living“, originally published in Libération.

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CFP Contested Spaces of Citizenship – Durham, 29 April 2015

Posted on January 14, 2015 by stuartelden

Postgraduate Conference: CONTESTED SPACES OF CITIZENSHIP Durham University, Department of Geography, 29 April 2015 Keynote speaker: Professor Engin F. Isin Space is at the core of political struggles and contestations. Brown (2010) highlights how borders and territory are, almost paradoxically, increasingly important … Continue reading →

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