Category Archives: Publishing

Books received – Heidegger Gesamtausgabe volumes

Posted on November 8, 2013 by stuartelden

Recently received, two huge volumes of the Heidegger Gesamtausgabe. The first, itself in two parts, is Volume 73, one of the manuscripts Heidegger chose not to publish in his lifetime, under the title of Zum Ereignis Denken. This follows from … Continue reading →

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The stupidity of bulk requests – ask the author for their article!

Posted on November 5, 2013 by stuartelden

Why do so many people feel a need to email large lists, such as crit-geog-forum, with a request for the pdf of an article their library doesn’t get? Surely the auto-reply that says ‘your message has been delivered to 3,808 … Continue reading →

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Ian Gregory talk at Warwick – reflections on GIS and historical and literary texts

Posted on October 23, 2013 by stuartelden

Earlier this week I attended a talk by Ian Gregory of the University of Lancaster, on the way GIS and the digital humanities more generally can be useful in reading historical and literary texts. Gregory has a background in Geography … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture and Society board meeting

Posted on October 19, 2013 by stuartelden

Yesterday was spent at Sage’s offices in London, at my first meeting of the Theory, Culture & Society editorial board. They say that you should not see two things made – laws and sausages – but seeing how this journal was … Continue reading →

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Theory, Culture and Society – new webpage

Posted on October 11, 2013 by stuartelden

theoryculturesociety.org – looks very good and a wealth of interesting things to follow up.

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Society and Space – from editor to one of the editors

Posted on October 11, 2013 by stuartelden

Society and Space Vol 31 No 5 marks the formal end of my role as the editor of the journal, though I continue as one of the editors. Previously the journal has had an editor – initially Michael Dear, then Gerry … Continue reading →

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Pedagogies of Disaster

Posted on October 9, 2013 by stuartelden

Newly published by Punctum books, Pedagogies of Disaster – authored by The Department of Eagles, edited by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Adam Staley Groves, Nico Jenkins. We live in an era where the university system is undergoing great changes owing to developments … Continue reading →

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Discussion about refereeing a book manuscript at New APPS

Posted on September 22, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting piece on reviewing a book manuscript, with some good discussion in comments.

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When requested referees fail to reply

Posted on September 14, 2013 by stuartelden

Interesting post at New APPS on a recurrent complaint of journal editors – requested referees who fail to reply. The comments below have some additional observations.  My 2008 Society and Space editorial “The exchange economy of peer review” (open access) … Continue reading →

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Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation – book series news

Posted on September 12, 2013 by stuartelden

Nik Heynen has news of changes to the editorial board of the Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation book series, along with news of the Neil Smith book prize.

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