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Martina Tazzioli, Border abolitionism: Migrants’ containment and the genealogies of struggles and rescue – Manchester University Press, July 2023

Posted on September 7, 2023 by stuartelden

Martina Tazzioli, Border abolitionism: Migrants’ containment and the genealogies of struggles and rescue – Manchester University Press, July 2023 Just an expensive hardback and e-book at the moment, unfortunately. Building on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique … Continue reading →

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Ignacio Mendiola, El poder y la caza de personas: Frontera, seguridad y necropolitica – Bellaterra, March 2022

Posted on September 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Ignacio Mendiola, El poder y la caza de personas: Frontera, seguridad y necropolitica – Bellaterra, March 2022 Este libro propone un trasvase del mundo de la caza de animales al mundo de la caza de personas. A partir de este … Continue reading →

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Hannah Richter, The Politics of Orientation: Deleuze Meets Luhmann – SUNY Press, October 2023

Posted on September 6, 2023 by stuartelden

Hannah Richter, The Politics of Orientation: Deleuze Meets Luhmann – SUNY Press, October 2023 Just an expensive hardback at the moment… The Politics of Orientation provides the first substantial exploration of a surprising theoretical kinship and its rich political implications, between … Continue reading →

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Philipp Ther, How the West Lost the Peace: The Great Transformation Since the Cold War, trans. Jessica Spengler – Polity, May 2023

Posted on September 5, 2023 by stuartelden

Philipp Ther, How the West Lost the Peace: The Great Transformation Since the Cold War, trans. Jessica Spengler – Polity, May 2023 When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the … Continue reading →

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Zygmunt Bauman, My Life in Fragments, ed. Izabela Wagner, trans. Katarzyna Bartoszyńska – Polity, June 2023

Posted on September 3, 2023 by stuartelden

Zygmunt Bauman, My Life in Fragments, ed. Izabela Wagner, trans. Katarzyna Bartoszyńska – Polity, June 2023 Zygmunt Bauman was one of the great social thinkers of our time: inventor of the idea of liquid modernity, he transformed our way of … Continue reading →

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Danny Dorling, Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State – Verso, September 2023

Posted on September 2, 2023 by stuartelden

Danny Dorling, Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State – Verso, September 2023 Britain was once the leading economy in Europe; it is now the most unequal. In Shattered Nation, leading geographer and author of Inequality and the 1% shows … Continue reading →

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Sharad Chari, Gramsci at Sea – University of Minnesota Press Forerunners, August 2023

Posted on September 1, 2023 by stuartelden

Sharad Chari, Gramsci at Sea – University of Minnesota Press Forerunners, August 2023 Exploring how the crisis of the world ocean is produced by capitalism and imperialism This succinct work reads Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the sea, focused in his … Continue reading →

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Indo-European Thought in Twentieth-Century France update 13: work on Benveniste, Saussure and in UK archives, a seminar on the research, and a brief health update

Posted on August 31, 2023 by stuartelden

In an earlier post here I briefly mentioned the medical issues that put me in hospital for three weeks in July. The operation was a success and I am making a good, though slow, recovery. I have been at home for a … Continue reading →

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Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey (eds.), Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World – ACMRS Press, April 2023 (print and open access)

Posted on August 30, 2023 by stuartelden

Noémie Ndiaye and Lia Markey (eds.), Seeing Race Before Race: Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World – ACMRS Press, April 2023 (print and open access) The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove … Continue reading →

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Johannes Angermuller and Philippe Blanchard, Careers of the Professoriate: Academic Pathways of the Linguists and Sociologists in Germany, France and the UK – Palgrave, 2023

Posted on August 28, 2023 by stuartelden

Johannes Angermuller and Philippe Blanchard, Careers of the Professoriate: Academic Pathways of the Linguists and Sociologists in Germany, France and the UK – Palgrave, 2023 This book examines career patterns of the professoriate. Professors may appear as specialised individualists in … Continue reading →

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