Category Archives: Publishing

Place, Space and Politics: New Book Series from Routledge

Posted on January 23, 2014 by stuartelden

Clive Barnett has news of a book series he is editing for Routledge – Research in Place, Space and Politics. This looks very interesting, and joins some other good series – the Antipode and RGS-IBG ones with Wiley-Blackwell, and the Geographies … Continue reading →

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Beyond Discipline and Punish: Is it time for a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir?

Posted on January 22, 2014 by stuartelden

Alan Sheridan’s translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir as Discipline and Punish is almost forty years old, and it is sometimes said that great works of literature need to be retranslated each generation. (For some examples of this for works … Continue reading →

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Works of twentieth-century theory that exist in new or revised translations – further examples wanted

Posted on January 20, 2014 by stuartelden

As I said I would last week, I’m preparing a detailed post on why we need a new translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir, and was thinking of other major works of twentieth-century theory that exist in more than one translation. There … Continue reading →

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Re-reading the first two chapters of Discipline and Punish and Surveiller et punir

Posted on January 17, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve spent the day in the State Library of Victoria, re-reading the first two chapters of Discipline and Punish and comparing them carefully to Surveiller et punir. This took me much longer than anticipated. I knew this text well – I’ve taught it quite a … Continue reading →

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A taxonomy of journal editors

Posted on January 9, 2014 by stuartelden

A taxonomy of journal editors – written for science, but enough relevance to social science and the humanities. Thanks to Ben Rosamond for the link.

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Winter 2014 Chicago Shorts – University of Chicago Press books

Posted on January 7, 2014 by stuartelden

Full details here – University of Chicago Press’s interesting project of making short books available electronically and, crucially, at very cheap prices (compare Palgrave Pivot…) Among the Winter Shorts, you’ll find: Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom: A Brief Introduction by Bruce Caldwell … Continue reading →

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On saying ‘no’, Edmund Wilson style

Posted on January 3, 2014 by stuartelden

Edmund Wilson, writer and critic, provides a list of things that he would not do… (list made more legible at Dangerous Minds).

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Books I’m looking forward to in 2014

Posted on January 1, 2014 by stuartelden

Some of the books I’m looking forward to this year include Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment (edited by Łukasz Stanek and previously unpublished in any language); Neil Brenner’s epic edited collection Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization; Mick Dillon’s Biopolitics of Security in the 21st … Continue reading →

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The twenty-five most important academic books to me from 2013

Posted on December 31, 2013 by stuartelden

Not ordered, not comprehensive, and I’m sure I’ve forgotten some – and of course there are those I’ve not yet read or am unaware of… These are all academic books published in 2013, not drawn from all the books I … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, David Farrell Krell, David Harvey, Grégoire Chamayou, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, John Protevi, Karl Marx, Louise Amoore, Michael Dillon, Michel Foucault, Peter Sloterdijk, Politics, Publishing, Universities, urban/urbanisation | 24 Comments

Elsevier now goes after institutional repositories

Posted on December 20, 2013 by stuartelden

News APPS has a story about how Elsevier is now going after institutions that have papers from their journals up online. This develops from their earlier challenge to academia.edu (linked to here).

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