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Theresa Delgadillo, Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas – University of Michigan Press, September 2024 and New Books discussion

Posted on December 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Theresa Delgadillo, Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas – University of Michigan Press, September 2024 New Books discussion with Shodona Kettle – thanks to dmf for the link Geographies of Relation offers a new lens for examining diaspora … Continue reading →

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“Perspectives on the Philosophy of Ian Hacking”, Monist special issue, 2025

Posted on December 18, 2025 by stuartelden

Perspectives on the Philosophy of Ian HackingOctober 2025, Volume 108, Number 4 Editor: Fraser McBrideAdvisory Editors Paul A. Roth and Matteo Vagelli Does Entity Realism Hold Up? — Lydia PattonScientific Understanding Beyond Representing: Lessons from Ian Hacking’s Work — Oscar Westerblad and … Continue reading →

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Magdalena Buchczyk, Martín Fonck, Tomás J. Usón and Tina Palaić eds., Unearthing Collections: Archives, time and ethics – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access)

Posted on December 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Magdalena Buchczyk, Martín Fonck, Tomás J. Usón and Tina Palaić eds., Unearthing Collections: Archives, time and ethics – UCL Press, November 2025 (print and open access) Unearthing Collections invites readers to reconsider the ethics of collections and archives through the lens … Continue reading →

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Beata Dreksler, Jala Makhzoumi eds. Landscape Architecture in the Arab Middle East – Routledge, September 2025

Posted on December 17, 2025 by stuartelden

Beata Dreksler, Jala Makhzoumi eds. Landscape Architecture in the Arab Middle East – Routledge, September 2025 This book explores the challenges facing landscape architecture in the Middle East. It supports the idea that landscape is a multifaceted idea, and examines landscapes architecture … Continue reading →

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Samuel A. Moore, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons – University of Michigan Press, September 2025

Posted on December 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Samuel A. Moore, Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons – University of Michigan Press, September 2025 New Books discussion with Stephen Pinfield – thanks to dmf for the link Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move … Continue reading →

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Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya – Duke University Press, February 2026

Posted on December 16, 2025 by stuartelden

Hanno Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya – Duke University Press, February 2026 Introduction open access at this link In a world shaped by war, climate disaster, and displacement, refugee camps are imagined as indispensable safe havens … Continue reading →

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Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

Posted on December 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Charles J. Stivale, Unfolding the Deleuze Seminars, 1970-1987: Summaries and Commentary – Edinburgh University Press, December 2025

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Erica Sheen, Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War – Oxford University Press, March 2024

Posted on December 15, 2025 by stuartelden

Erica Sheen, Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War – Oxford University Press, March 2024 I missed this when it came out last year – thanks to Richard Ashby for the link. Shame about the price though. Geopolitical … Continue reading →

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Boris Porshnev – from peasant revolts in 17th century France to cryptozoology and the quest for the Soviet Yeti

Posted on December 14, 2025 by stuartelden

I first read the work of the Soviet historian Boris Fyodorovich Porshnev because of Michel Foucault. (His name is sometimes transliterated, especially in France, as Porchnev.) In his 1971-72 Collège de France lectures, Penal Theories and Institutions, Foucault spends the first … Continue reading →

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Drew Flanagan, From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955 – LSU Press, April 2026

Posted on December 13, 2025 by stuartelden

Drew Flanagan, From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany, 1945-1955 – LSU Press, April 2026 After the collapse of the National Socialist regime in May 1945, France became one of four principal occupying powers in a … Continue reading →

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