Category Archives: Politics

Thinking Memory Through Space – conference in London

Posted on May 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Conference in July in London – full details here.

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Call for Proposals: Workshop on Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance

Posted on May 1, 2013 by stuartelden

Call for papers for a workshop I’m speaking at in September, along with a number of very interesting other speakers. Call for Proposals: Workshop Regimes of Calculation and Global Governance September 19-20, 2013 Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, … Continue reading →

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Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy – paperback due in July

Posted on April 30, 2013 by stuartelden

I missed the hardback of this a while back, but the paperback is due in July. Carbon Democracy provides a unique examination of the relationship between oil and democracy. Interweaving the history of energy, political analysis, and economic theory, Mitchell … Continue reading →

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The Geopolitics of Boko Haram

Posted on April 29, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my talk in Istanbul earlier this month is available here. The talk was under the title of “Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror’: The Geopolitics of Boko Haram”. I’ve given this talk, in slightly different forms in a … Continue reading →

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Mark Blyth on the Austerity Delusion

Posted on April 29, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Blyth’s Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea has just come out; there is a summary of the argument in Foreign Affairs (open access). Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.

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After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto

Posted on April 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Michael Rustin launch the Kilburn Manifesto. Stuart Hall explains the purpose in The Guardian; and the first chapter can be downloaded here. Although the neoliberal economic settlement is unravelling, its  political underpinning remains largely unchallenged. … Continue reading →

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Louise Amoore, The Politics of Possibility

Posted on April 19, 2013 by stuartelden

My friend and Durham colleague Louise Amoore’s forthcoming book, The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability, now has a page up at Duke University Press site. It looks great: Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of “low probability, … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Louise Amoore, Michel Foucault, Politics, William E Connolly | 1 Comment

The Great University Gamble

Posted on April 17, 2013 by stuartelden

This looks a depressing must-read – Andrew McGettigan, The Great University Gamble: In 2010 the UK government imposed huge cuts and market-driven reforms on higher education. Proposals to raise undergraduate tuition fees provoked the angriest protests for decades. This academic … Continue reading →

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Boko Haram paper at the AAG

Posted on April 17, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my AAG talk is available here. The title was “Urban Territory: Violent Political Technologies in London and Kano”, but between writing the abstract and giving the talk events in Nigeria meant that my focus changed quite … Continue reading →

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Books received

Posted on April 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Rosi Bradotti, The Posthuman; Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy (to review); Laurence Hemming’s Heidegger and Marx (which I endorsed); Neve Gordon’s Israel’s Occupation; the launch issue of Territory, Politics, Governance (which has an essay from me in it); … Continue reading →

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