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Legal terrain: the political materiality of territory – LRIL lecture now published

Posted on January 18, 2018 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
‘Legal terrain—the political materiality of territory’ – my London Review of International Law lecture is now published. The journal requires subscription, but if you’d like a copy and can’t access through an institution, please email…

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Times Higher Education letter on Shrinking Pensions in UK universities

Posted on January 18, 2018 by stuartelden

There is a letter in the Times Higher Education about ‘Shrinking Pensions’. I was pleased to be asked to be one of the signatories. If you are a UCU member in the UK, and haven’t yet voted in the pension … Continue reading →

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Martijn Konings, Capital and Time For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason – now out with Stanford University Press

Posted on January 18, 2018 by stuartelden

Martijn Konings, Capital and Time For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason – now out with Stanford University Press Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the … Continue reading →

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Jeff Malpas, Place and Experience A Philosophical Topography, 2nd Edition coming in March 2018

Posted on January 18, 2018 by stuartelden

Jeff Malpas, Place and Experience A Philosophical Topography, second edition coming in March 2018. The first edition of Place and Experience established Jeff Malpas as one of the leading philosophers and thinkers of place and space and provided a creative … Continue reading →

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Marshall Sahlins & David Graeber, On Kings – open access e-book

Posted on January 16, 2018 by stuartelden

On Kings by Marshall Sahlins & David Graeber (Hau Press, distributed University of Chicago Press, 2017, 534 pp.) is available as open access pdf in this link; physical copy to buy here. In anthropology as much as in popular imagination, kings are figures of … Continue reading →

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Maja Zehfuss, War and the Politics of Ethics – now out with OUP

Posted on January 16, 2018 by stuartelden

Maja Zehfuss, War and the Politics of Ethics – now published with Oxford University Press. [Update: jumped the gun here – will actually be published in February 2018] Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West’s ability and responsibility … Continue reading →

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Dario Melossi and Massimo Pavarini, The Prison and the Factory (40th Anniversary Edition)

Posted on January 16, 2018 by stuartelden

Dario Melossi and Massimo Pavarini’s classic book The Prison and the Factory has been reissued as a 40th Anniversary Edition. This new edition of The Prison and the Factory, a classic work on radical criminology, includes two new, long essays from the … Continue reading →

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Rob Kitchin, Rules for making decisions on requests for academic work

Posted on January 12, 2018 by stuartelden

Rob Kitchin, Rules for making decisions on requests for academic work Some very interesting discussion of how to decide what to do, and what not to do, Last week I posted on my personal blog about the volume of requests I receive … Continue reading →

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Pluto Books Radical Geography series – 50% off and Danny Dorling introduction

Posted on January 12, 2018 by stuartelden

Pluto Books Radical Geography series is on sale, with 50% off the three books in the series – Katharyne Mitchell, Making Workers; Stephen Crossley, In their Place and Paul Routledge, Space Invaders. One of the series editors, Danny Dorling, has an introduction here: What is Radical … Continue reading →

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Books received – Freud, Beckman on Deleuze, Heidegger, Olson, Hanawalt, Willetts

Posted on January 12, 2018 by stuartelden

Freud’s Therapy and Technique; Frida Beckman’s Gilles Deleuze; the latest volume of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe; Kevin Olson’s Imagined Sovereignties: The Power of the People and Other Myths of the Modern Age; Barbara Hanawalt’s Ceremony and Civility: Civic Culture in Late Medieval London; and David Willett’s A University … Continue reading →

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