Category Archives: Henri Lefebvre

CFP – Media & The Production of Urban Space

Posted on April 24, 2012 by stuartelden

CALL FOR PAPERS The ECREA Temporary Working Group “Media & The City”, the ARC Research Centre at the Catholic University of Milan and First Monday are happy to announce their collaboration for a special issue of First Monday titled WAVES, … Continue reading →

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Rereading novels

Posted on April 9, 2012 by stuartelden

The Guardian has a couple of features on rereading novels – a piece discussing it here, and some contemporary authors’ favourite novels to re-read here. This isn’t something I do very often with novels. I did when younger but now I … Continue reading →

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Back to the Café Algiers

Posted on April 5, 2012 by stuartelden

Four years ago, Neil and I had a series of work sessions in the Café Algiers, just off Harvard Square. These were in preparation for the ‘Henri Lefebvre on State, Space, Territory’ paper – though our acknowledgement of the Café itself got … Continue reading →

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More downloads

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

Elden, S. Rethinking the Polis: Implications of Heidegger’s Questioning the  Political. Political Geography. 2000;19:407-422. Elden, S. Some are Born Posthumously: The French Afterlife of Henri Lefebvre. Historical Materialism. 2006;14:185-202. Elden, S. Spaces of Humanitarian Exception. Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography. … Continue reading →

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25 years of Actuel Marx

Posted on April 2, 2012 by stuartelden

An anniversary compilation of some of the best papers from Actuel Marx – details here. This is a journal that has been welcoming to my work – a piece here on Lefebvre’s posthumous reception, which later appeared in English in … Continue reading →

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Why is Lefebvre sometimes Lefèbvre?

Posted on March 25, 2012 by stuartelden

I’ve just seen this again – where does the spelling Lefèbvre for Henri Lefebvre come from? I have all but three of his books in French, and it’s not on them. His biographer Rémi Hess doesn’t use it. Lefebvre himself … Continue reading →

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Alex Loftus – Everyday Environmentalism

Posted on March 18, 2012 by stuartelden

Interesting new book out by Alex Loftus – Everyday Environmentalism: Creating an Urban Political Ecology with University of Minnesota Press. UMP kindly sent me a publicity copy, and the timing was good – I read it immediately after Matthew Gandy’s … Continue reading →

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Heidegger’s handwriting

Posted on March 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Came across this again (it’s mentioned in Speaking Against Number). Something very interesting in seeing the handwriting of people you’d only before read in print. With Foucault and Lefebvre I’ve seen originals in the archives; with Heidegger at the Heidegger museum … Continue reading →

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Urban Cultural Studies – new blog

Posted on March 11, 2012 by stuartelden

http://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/ run by Benjamin Fraser, who has written some interesting work on Lefebvre, including this new book – Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience: Reading the Mobile City.

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Lefebvre and Democracy

Posted on March 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Mark Purcell has posted his AAG talk on Lefebvre and Democracy, here (via Clive Barnett, who offers a brief critique).

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