Category Archives: Territory

Juliet Fall, Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography – EPFL Press, April 2025

Juliet Fall, Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography – EPFL Press, April 2025, distributed by University of Chicago Press I’ve mentioned the French version Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière before; but the English also … Continue reading

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Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 and New Books network discussion with Roberto Mazza

Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 I’ve shared news of the book before, but there is a New Books network discussion with Roberto Mazza – thanks to … Continue reading

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Border Temporalities in and Beyond Europe – special issue of Borders in Globalization Review (open access)

Border Temporalities in and Beyond Europe – special issue of Borders in Globalization Review (open access) Guest editors Johanna Jaschik, Machteld Venken, and Birte Wassenberg bring time into border studies with this new collection, Border Temporalities in and Beyond Europe, featuring 12 research … Continue reading

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My favourite academic books of 2024

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year (or late the previous one), and that I read and liked them. Many of the … Continue reading

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Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025

Noam Leshem, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land – University of Chicago Press, January 2025 A firsthand look at the lives of those who reside in no man’s land—the violence they endure and their immense resilience. “No man’s … Continue reading

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Juliet Fall, Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière – Mētis, November 2024

Juliet Fall, Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière – Mētis, November 2024 Bornées. Une histoire illustrée de la frontière raconte la frontière franco-suisse en bande dessinée. L’initiative de cette recherche s’enracine dans le contexte très particulier de la pandémie … Continue reading

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Stuart Elden, “Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, online first in History of European Ideas (open access)

My article “Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, is now available online first in History of European Ideas, and it’s open access. This article discusses an important moment in the career of Alexandre Koyré, and the history of philosophy in … Continue reading

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“Alexandre Koyré and the Collège de France”, forthcoming in History of European Ideas; and a talk on Canguilhem and Koyré in Bristol

In some previous updates on my Indo-European thought project, I’d mentioned doing some research on Alexandre Koyré. In March and May. I said I’d been working on a piece about his unsuccessful attempt to get elected to a chair at … Continue reading

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Books received – Sartre, Koyré, Meillet, Gilmartin, Hubbard, Kitchin and Roberts, and Foucault

Jean-Paul Sartre’s Modern Times, older second-hand books by Alexandre Koyré and Antoine Meillet, the new edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, and Foucault, l’indiscipliné – Sciences Humaines, Les Essentiels hors-série 16, April-May 2024. I am one of the new … Continue reading

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Books received – Chevallier, Behrent, Testa, Bloch & Febvre, Kadercan, Barthes, Koyré

Some books I’ve mentioned here recently – Philippe Chevallier, Michel Foucault et le christianisme: Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée; Michael C. Behrent, Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years; Federico Testa (ed.), Canguilhem beyond Epistemology and the History of Science – a special issue of Revue … Continue reading

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