Category Archives: Politics

Speculative Geographies

Posted on February 26, 2013 by stuartelden

This looks interesting – issue 2 of The State, on Speculative Geographies. Some pieces are available online, and you can buy the complete issue as a pdf for $5, but the material object looks interesting in itself, aside from the … Continue reading →

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The National Curriculum in History

Posted on February 26, 2013 by stuartelden

History Workshop Online have an interesting discussion of the proposed new UK National Curriculum in history. Here’s the first paragraph: The response to the latest proposals for the National Curriculum in History (February 2013) can justifiably be described as historic (or … Continue reading →

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The Political Bodies of Coriolanus

Posted on February 25, 2013 by stuartelden

The audio recording of my Politics, Philosophy and International Thought lecture at Aberystwyth University is available here. It’s a part of the planned Shakespearean Territories book, and this time I talked about Coriolanus – mainly the play but also the … Continue reading →

Posted in My Publications, Politics, Shakespearean Territories, Territory, William Shakespeare | 1 Comment

Mark Purcell, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy

Posted on February 24, 2013 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell’s new book, The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy, is now available to pre-order. It has very positive endorsements from Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein. The book uses Lefebvre, among others, to think about politics, the urban and democracy. Mark … Continue reading →

Posted in Antonio Gramsci, Antonio Negri, Books, Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Rancière, Michael Hardt, Politics, urban/urbanisation | 3 Comments

Nur Masalha – The Palestine Nakba reviewed

Posted on February 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Nur Masalha’s The Palestine Nakba is reviewed at Warscapes. Here’s the first paragraph The ongoing dispossession of the Palestinian people has rarely been given the moral weight more readily accorded to European historical traumas. The colonized status of Palestinians and … Continue reading →

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Chris Harker on Judith Butler’s Parting Ways

Posted on February 21, 2013 by stuartelden

My Durham colleague Chris Harker discusses Judith Butler’s Parting Ways – here and here.

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Boko Haram, Shakespeare and Territory – talks at L.S.E. and Aberystwyth

Posted on February 18, 2013 by stuartelden

I’m giving three talks this coming week – at the London School of Economics and Aberystwyth University. At the L.S.E. I’ll be giving the first version on a paper under the working title of “Nigeria’s ‘War on Terror’: The Geopolitics … Continue reading →

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Brett Christophers – Banking Across Boundaries

Posted on February 17, 2013 by stuartelden

Brett Christophers’s new book Banking Across Boundaries: Placing Finance in Capitalism has just been published. It’s part of the Antipode Book Series, and comes with glowing endorsements from David Harvey, Mary Poovey and Leonard Seabrooke. There are excerpts available to … Continue reading →

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Thomas Nail, Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo

Posted on February 16, 2013 by stuartelden

Thomas Nail’s Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari and Zapatismo is reviewed at NDPR. We are witnessing the return of political revolution. However, this is not a return to the classical forms of revolution: the capture of the state, the political … Continue reading →

Posted in Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Politics, Territory | 2 Comments

Boko Haram – An Annotated Bibliography

Posted on February 14, 2013 by stuartelden

  Update 27 March 2013 – an updated version of this bibliography is available here. This is an incomplete bibliography, but includes the pieces I’ve read while writing a piece on questions of territory in relation to Boko Haram (see … Continue reading →

Posted in Frantz Fanon, Politics, Territory, urban/urbanisation | 6 Comments