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Juval Portugali (ed.), The Crisis of Democracy and in the Age of Cities – Edward Elgar, 2023

Posted on November 5, 2023 by stuartelden

Juval Portugali (ed.), The Crisis of Democracy and in the Age of Cities – Edward Elgar, 2023 Providing a succinct overview of historical, present and future perspectives of cities and urbanism, this discerning book examines how the 21st century, regarded … Continue reading →

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Ash Amin, After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance – Polity, October 2023

Posted on November 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Ash Amin, After Nativism: Belonging in an Age of Intolerance – Polity, October 2023 Increasingly, many people in democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalization, uncertainty and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and the UK to … Continue reading →

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Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault – University of Chicago Press, September 2023 and New Books discussion

Posted on November 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Daniele Lorenzini, The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault – University of Chicago Press, September 2023 I’ve shared news of this book before, but there now a New Books discussion with Richard Grijalva available. A groundbreaking … Continue reading →

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Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World – Verso, May 2023 (e-book free to download)

Posted on November 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Antony Loewenstein, The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World – Verso, May 2023 Verso have currently made the e-book free to download Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing … Continue reading →

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Tim Cresswell, Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition – Wiley, April 2024

Posted on November 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Tim Cresswell, Geographic Thought: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition – Wiley, April 2024

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 14: returning to work, tracking Benveniste’s teaching, and working with archives including the Aurel Stein collections in London

Posted on October 31, 2023 by stuartelden

I have now been back at work for a few weeks, initially beginning half-time and gradually increasing what I can do. The support I have had from my department for a long period off work and a phased transition has … Continue reading →

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Albert Camus, Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World – ed. Alice Kaplan, trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, March 2023

Posted on October 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Albert Camus, Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World – ed. Alice Kaplan, trans. Ryan Bloom, University of Chicago Press, March 2023 Albert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South … Continue reading →

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Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History – Bloomsbury, February 2024

Posted on October 29, 2023 by stuartelden

Josephine Quinn, How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History – Bloomsbury, February 2024 What does history look like without ‘civilisations’? Josephine Quinn calls for a major reassessment of the West and the concepts that define it. The West, … Continue reading →

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Søren Mau, Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital – Verso, January 2023

Posted on October 27, 2023 by stuartelden

Søren Mau, Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital – Verso, January 2023 Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital’s paradoxical expansion and … Continue reading →

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Jason Read, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work – Verso, February 2024

Posted on October 25, 2023 by stuartelden

Jason Read, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work – Verso, February 2024 In a world of declining wages, working conditions, and instability, the response for many has been to work harder, increasing hours and finding various ways … Continue reading →

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