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Marcus Power, Geopolitics and Development – Routledge, 2019

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Marcus Power, Geopolitics and Development – Routledge, 2019 Unlike many Routledge titles, pleased to see this will be in paperback immediately. Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality,…

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Elaine Stratford, Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire – Rowman, January 2019

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Elaine Stratford, Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire – Rowman International, January 2019. Take three things: the home, nature, and the feminine ideal—a notional and perfected femininity. Constitute them as…

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Stuart Hall, Essential Essays (Two-volume set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora, edited by David Morley, Duke UP 2019

Stuart Hall, Essential Essays (Two-volume set): Foundations of Cultural Studies & Identity and Diaspora, edited by David Morley, Duke University Press, 2019 Volumes 1 and 2 of Stuart Hall’s Essential Essays are available as a set From his arrival in … Continue reading

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New Perspectives Vol 26 No 3 out – focus on ‘Post-Truth’ and Politics

New Perspectives Vol 3, 2018 – open access here Post-Truth-Telling in IR We break new ground in this issue of New Perspectives with an extensive co-edited special section on ‘Post-Truth’ and its relevance for politics and international relations. As Editor-in-Chief, … Continue reading

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Bruno Latour interviewed in Artnet

Bruno Latour interviewed in Artnet (via Graham Harman)

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David Beer, The Data Gaze, reviewed at LSE Review of Books

David Beer, The Data Gaze (Sage 2018, Society and Space series) is reviewed at LSE Review of Books by Ignas Kalpokas. It can by now be taken as a given that ‘data’ or, more precisely, ‘big data’ (often even capitalised to reflect its … Continue reading

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Sun-Young Park, Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris – U Pittsburgh Press, 2018

Sun-Young Park, Ideals of the Body: Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris – University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018 Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth … Continue reading

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‘Imagining a territory. The construction and representation of territory in late medieval Europe’ (Workshop, Amsterdam, 18-19 January 2019)

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? A report by Bente Marschall and Bastiaan Van den Akker ? On the 18th and 19th of January 2019, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) hosted a workshop titled ‘Imagining a territory. The construction and…

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Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss (eds), Global Politics, third edition – Routledge, January 2019

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Jenny Edkins and Maja Zehfuss (eds), Global Politics, third edition – Routledge, January 2019 The third edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction continues to provide a completely original way of teaching and learning about…

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The Early Foucault Update 23: the Hegel thesis and other manuscripts, Jean Wahl and Maladie mentale

I’ve been continuing work on The Early Foucault manuscript, which is coming together quite well. After the Christmas and New Year break, I submitted a book review and chapter on quite different topics. I’m now in Paris, where I’ve been … Continue reading

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