Category Archives: Politics

Paulina Ochoa Espejo – The Time of Popular Sovereignty

Posted on August 27, 2012 by stuartelden

Paulina Ochoa Espejo, The Time of Popular Sovereignty (PSU Press, 2011) is an interesting and innovative study of the notion of the ‘people’, because it stresses how we need to think about this notion as developing and changing through time. She … Continue reading →

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John Agnew and Martin Jones on Territory, Politics, Governance

Posted on August 26, 2012 by stuartelden

In a series of short videos, John Agnew and Martin Jones discuss the new journal Territory, Politics, Governance. The links to the interviews are here– the full interview isn’t currently working – or you can go right to the transcript.

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Urban Geopolitics

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

At the Antipode blog, Marijn Nieuwenhuis has an interesting post on Urban Geopolitics in the wake of the London Olympics. He mentions the Territorial Support Group’s ‘Total Policing’ map I linked to a few weeks back. Marijn discusses Foucault and … Continue reading →

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Ben Anderson on ‘rapid response’

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

Ben Anderson has a piece on ‘Rapid Response’ at the Berfrois website, which begins with the shooting at the cinema in Aurora, but draws out more general issues about states of emergency. Phil Steinberg and Derek Gregory have both written … Continue reading →

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More books received

Posted on August 10, 2012 by stuartelden

The Pluto ones are for review work, and a couple of others are review copies. More interesting reading here.

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Derek Gregory on ‘The Life of a Bullet’

Posted on August 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Also from Derek Gregory – some discussion of the arms trade, and lots of links, following from this powerful film clip.  

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Verso on the Olympics

Posted on August 8, 2012 by stuartelden

Undeterred by the general enthusiasm for the Olympics – at least in the UK – Verso have posted the second part of their critical reading list. Again, some of these are a bit of a stretch, but some interesting reading … Continue reading →

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Alex Jeffrey – The Improvised State

Posted on August 7, 2012 by stuartelden

Alex Jeffrey’s The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia will be available in print in October. You can read Chapter One here. The Improvised State provides a highly developed account of the nature and outcomes of Bosnian … Continue reading →

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Verso’s Olympic reading list

Posted on August 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Some of these are a bit of a stretch, but many good books here. Marc Perelman’s recent Barbaric Sport: A Global Plague looks intriguingly polemical.

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Slavoj Žižek – Signs from the Future

Posted on August 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Žižek has another new book coming out this autumn. There is an excerpt available here. Compared to Less than Nothing it’s a mere pamphlet at 128 pages. Entitled The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, it’s published by Verso.

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