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Mark Usher, Territory, hydraulics, biopolitics: internal colonization through urban catchment management in Singapore – Territory, Politics, Governance, April 2022 The article requires subscription, but if you don’t have access, email Mark for a copy On separating from Malaysia in 1965, … Continue reading →

Women’s International Thought: Towards a New Canon – edited by Patricia Owens, Katharina Ritzier, Kimberley Hutchings and Sarah C. Dunstan – CUP, July 2022 This first anthology of women’s international thought explores how women transformed the practice of international relations, … Continue reading →

Gottfried Schnödl and Florian Sprenger, Uexküll’s Surroundings: Umwelt Theory and Right-Wing Thought – Meson Press, 2022 (open access) The German original is also available from Meson Press – Uexkülls Umgebungen: Umweltlehre und rechtes Denken With its diversity of possible Umwelten or environments for living … Continue reading →

Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Planning – University of Minnesota Press, August 2022 Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish … Continue reading →

Parastou Saberi, Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto – University of Minnesota Press, August 2022 The city of Toronto is often held up as a leader in diversity and inclusion. In Fearing the Immigrant, however, Parastou Saberi argues that … Continue reading →

Philippe le Goff, Auguste Blanqui and the Politics of Popular Empowerment – Bloomsbury, Paperback, January 2022 Few individuals made such an impact on nineteenth-century French politics as Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881). Political organiser, leader, propagandist and prisoner, Blanqui was arguably the foremost proponent … Continue reading →

Christopher Highley, Blackfriars in Early Modern London: Theater, Church, and Neighbourhood – OUP, February 2022 The latest book in the Early Modern Literary Geographies series: Blackfriars: Theater, Church, and Neighborhood in Early Modern London is a cultural history of an urban … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Foucault News:
Foucault Lives. A Day Seminar on the Work and Legacy of Michel Foucault Event:  Foucault Lives 2022 Date:    25 June 2022 Venue: Valletta Campus As he often said, Foucault never wanted his work to become…

Ryan Johnson – Deleuze: A Stoic, Edinburgh University Press, February 2022 Deleuze, A Stoic shows Deleuze’s engagement with Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful ideas, reveals a lasting influence on Gilles Deleuze by mapping his provocative reading of … Continue reading →