Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

Self Organized Seminar – links and files

Posted on September 10, 2012 by stuartelden

This site has a lot of resources – some links and some files of questionable provenance. It includes a complete pdf of my book Understanding Henri Lefebvre for instance.

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Chris Butler – Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City

Posted on August 31, 2012 by stuartelden

Recently out with Routledge. Looks good, though shame about the price. While certain aspects of Henri Lefebvre’s writings have been examined extensively within the disciplines of geography, social theory, urban planning and cultural studies, there has been no comprehensive consideration … Continue reading →

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Lefebvre on Hitler

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

One of Lefebvre’s earliest books – very hard to find these days – was a short study of the first five years of Hitler’s dictatorship in Germany. Hitler au pouvoir, les enseignements de cinq années de fascisme en Allemagne, Paris: Bureau … Continue reading →

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Some more free downloads

Posted on August 28, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve been posting up old papers here for a while, but haven’t done any recently. Here are a few more: Elden, S. & Williams, A. The Territorial Integrity of Iraq, 2003-2007: Invocation, Violation, Viability. Geoforum. 2009;40:407-417. Elden, S. The War … Continue reading →

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Łukasz Stanek – Henri Lefebvre on Space

Posted on August 13, 2012 by stuartelden

I finally got round to reading Łukasz Stanek, Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory, which has been out for a little while. The book is extremely well researched, and filled with interesting discoveries from … Continue reading →

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The Space of the World

Posted on June 5, 2012 by stuartelden

A la limite, le problème qui se pose c’est celui des rapports de la pensée à la culture : comment se fait-il que la pensée ait un lieu dans l’espace du monde, qu’elle y ait comme une origine, et qu’elle … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre – Debates and Controversies

Posted on June 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Strong piece by Stefan Kipfer, Parastou Saberi and Thorben Wieditz in Progress in Human Geography surveying Lefebvre’s contributions and recent scholarship (requires subscription). The material on the state and social movements is particularly useful. Aided with French and German scholarship, this … Continue reading →

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Scott Kirsch on State, Space, World

Posted on May 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Another detailed review – in Antipode by Scott Kirsch. The whole review appears to be available free. Here’s two paragraphs – the second and the last: Of course, it is not surprising that Lefebvre’s opus on space became the touchstone … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 12, 2012 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Path to the Possible:
I recently did a book review of State, Space, World, a collection of Henri Lefebvre’s work edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden (who blogs at Progressive Geographies).  The review is in Social…

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Mark Purcell on Lefebvre, State, Space, World

Posted on May 5, 2012 by stuartelden

There is a very generous review of Lefebvre’s State, Space, World collection by Mark Purcell in the new issue of Social and Cultural Geography (requires subscription). [Update: Mark has posted the whole thing here] Let me say this plainly: this is … Continue reading →

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