Category Archives: Society and Space

Istanbul and Los Angeles

Posted on April 3, 2013 by stuartelden

Just about to hit the road again, to conferences in Istanbul and Los Angeles. I’ll be speaking about Boko Haram in Istanbul, at a meeting of the Open Society Institute’s academic fellowship program. This gives me a chance to meet … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Conferences, Peter Sloterdijk, Publishing, Society and Space, The Birth of Territory, Travel, Universities | 1 Comment

A New Way to Peer Review

Posted on December 23, 2012 by stuartelden

BioMed Central discusses a new way to peer review, the community peer-review initiative Peerage of Science. There is some relation to the editorial I wrote for Society and Space a few years back on “The Exchange Economy of Peer Review” (open … Continue reading →

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Territory and Risk

Posted on November 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Two interesting looking collections, edited by Valérie November. More details here, and in the video she talks about the work. A paper on this topic in Society and Space, co-authored with Eduardo Camacho-Hübner and Bruno Latour, entitled “Entering a Risky … Continue reading →

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November

Posted on November 1, 2012 by stuartelden

I made it through an exceptionally busy October. Things now calm down substantially, and I can try to get back to a position where my teaching, administrative roles (IAS, IBRU, Society and Space) and my own research have something of … Continue reading →

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A long day

Posted on October 23, 2012 by stuartelden

Yesterday was a long and varied day, in which I dealt with aspects of just about every part of my roles at Durham and beyond. I was in before 8am, dealing with some teaching stuff, and then giving a two-hour … Continue reading →

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Tributes to Neil Smith

Posted on September 30, 2012 by stuartelden

Many tributes to Neil Smith are appearing. There are several in the comments to the CUNY Graduate Center page, including from Trevor Barnes, John Agnew, Allen Scott, Sue Ruddick, Simon Dalby, Dick Peet, Ron Johnston, James Sidaway… too many to … Continue reading →

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Society and Space virtual theme issue on Literary Geographies

Posted on September 26, 2012 by stuartelden

10 papers from the archive, open access, on the theme of Literary Geographies. Brief introduction and links to all the papers on the Society and Space open site.

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Antipode book reviews to be open access

Posted on September 24, 2012 by stuartelden

Book reviews in Antipode have been made available open access, and all new book reviews will appear on the Antipode Foundation site instead of the print/online journal. More details and links to two recent reviews here. Society and Space has … Continue reading →

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Two pieces on peer review

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stuartelden

One in The Times Higher Education; the other in the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies (requires subscription). The second is a wide-ranging piece with a lot of interesting points that go far beyond the specialist field the journal serves. I … Continue reading →

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Peter Gratton – Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity audio available

Posted on August 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio recording of Peter Gratton’s talk ‘Spinoza and the Biopolitical Roots of Modernity’ at UWS is now available (from here, via’s Peter’s blog). Abstract: Much has been written about bio-political sovereignty in the wake of Giorgio Agamben’s work, which relies, … Continue reading →

Posted in Baruch Spinoza, Carl Schmitt, Conferences, Giorgio Agamben, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Society and Space | 2 Comments