Category Archives: Society and Space

Review of Jenny Edkins, Missing: Persons and Politics

Posted on March 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Over at the Society and Space open site you can find my review of Jenny Edkins’s new book from Cornell University Press, Missing: Persons and Politics.

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Cambridge discussion audio

Posted on February 20, 2012 by stuartelden

The audio recording of the discussion on 16 February 2012 with Adam Ramadan is now available. Many thanks to Adam for asking the questions and John Mason and the Cambridge University Geographical Society for inviting me and organising the event. Apart from a … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, My Publications, Neil Brenner, Politics, Publishing, Society and Space, Territory, Terror and Territory, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Universities | Leave a comment

Security and Geopolitical Space – readings

Posted on February 14, 2012 by stuartelden

My visit to the University of Kentucky for the Committee on Social Theory is part of a class on ‘Security’. The idea is that the four visiting speakers give public lectures and then have a discussion session with the students taking … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Derek Gregory, Society and Space, Stephen Graham, teaching, Territory, The Space of the World | 4 Comments

Boys Town Redux – Society and Space virtual theme issue

Posted on February 6, 2012 by stuartelden

Mary Thomas has put together a virtual theme issue of Society and Space, with 12 papers from the archive made open access for a limited time and an introduction. The inspiration is the twentieth anniversary of Rosalyn Deutsche’s critique of … Continue reading →

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On peer review

Posted on January 30, 2012 by stuartelden

A post on the difficulty of getting reports, here; and a post on how it’s not really a huge amount of work, with interesting comments, here. Another post raises the issue of who is asked to referee. And finally, a proposal … Continue reading →

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Society and Space new issue

Posted on January 28, 2012 by stuartelden

A new issue of Society and Space is now out – includes a theme section of essays on the Swiss geographer Claude Raffestin, edited by Francisco Klauser. Full table of contents here.

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Jason Read on Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza

Posted on January 13, 2012 by stuartelden

This is a good, detailed review of the recently published translation of Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza. You can read a brief interview I did with the translator, Susan Ruddick, here. Society and Space published a version of the introduction and … Continue reading →

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On referees

Posted on January 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Over at the Society and Space open site I offer some thoughts on referees and the refereeing process, building on an editorial by Felix Driver in Journal of Historical Geography.

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End of 2011, and a look to 2012

Posted on January 7, 2012 by stuartelden

I meant to post this before I went offline for a couple of weeks for Christmas and a holiday in the Gambia, but didn’t do so. Anyway, it is a brief review of my 2011 and a look to 2012… … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Cricket, Cycling, Eduardo Mendieta, Immanuel Kant, My Publications, Peter Sloterdijk, Society and Space, The Birth of Territory, The Space of the World, Travel | Leave a comment

More Occupy forum contributions

Posted on November 21, 2011 by stuartelden

Some more contributions to the Society and Space ‘Occupy’ forum – including one by me on the Guy Fawkes mask.

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