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Political Thought, Time and History: An International Conference – Cambridge, 10-11 May 2018

Posted on December 5, 2017 by stuartelden

Full details and programme heherere. It is easy to assume that political thought is bound up with time and history.  To most historians, time and history are obvious dimensions of politics; politics occur in contexts which are temporal and historical, … Continue reading →

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When did Foucault translate Leo Spitzer?

Posted on December 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
One of the few translations made by Michel Foucault, and perhaps the most unusual, was an essay by literary theorist Leo Spitzer. It was published as “Arts du langage et linguistique”, in Leo Spitzer, Etudes de style, Paris: Gallimard,…

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Drone Imaginaries and Society, Odense, June 5-6 2018

Posted on December 4, 2017 by stuartelden

Drone Imaginaries and Society – full details here (via Geographical Imaginations) University of Southern Denmark, June 5-6, 2018 Room Sky (Odense Campus College) Organizer: Kathrin Maurer (Phd, Dr. Phil) Associate Professor of German Studies kamau@sdu.dk Keynote Speaker: Derek Gregory: Peter Wall … Continue reading →

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E-IR introductory textbook on International Relations Theory (open access)

Posted on December 4, 2017 by stuartelden

  International Relations Theory Available now on Amazon (USA, UK, Ca, Fra, Ger), in all good book stores, and via a free PDF download. Kindle, iBook and other e-reader versions are available via the relevant stores/apps. This book is designed as a … Continue reading →

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Books received – Harvey, Eribon, Hay, Lister & Marsh, Danchev, Goodstein

Posted on December 2, 2017 by stuartelden

David Harvey’s The Ways of the World; the first edition of Didier Eribon’s biography of Foucault; Colin Hay, Michael Lister and David Marsh (eds.) The State: Theories and Issues; Alex Danchev’s biography of Georges Braque; and Elizabeth Goodstein’s Georg Simmel and the Disciplinary … Continue reading →

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Foucault’s Last Decade reviewed at Manchester Review of Books

Posted on December 2, 2017 by stuartelden

I’ve been rather preoccupied the last few days with hosting the second Territory workshop of the ICE-LAW project, of which more later. But I’ve just seen this very nice review of my 2016 book Foucault’s Last Decade in Manchester Review of … Continue reading →

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Special issue on “Power and Space in the Drone Age”

Posted on November 28, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Open Geography:
A special issue on “Power and Space in the Drone Age” is available (open access) from the journal Geographica Helvetica. The list of contents is below and includes my own paper “Assemblage of the vertical:…

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ScholarlyHub – Scholars launch crowdfunding campaign for non-profit academic platform

Posted on November 28, 2017 by stuartelden

  ScholarlyHub has launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a new, multi-disciplinary open-access platform for scholarly communications. It aims to boost interaction among scholars and enhance their ability to share their work with the public at large, free from the … Continue reading →

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Books received – Wilson, Beer, Park and Kaplan, Sullivan, Roudinesco, Mattern

Posted on November 28, 2017 by stuartelden

A pile of recent books – Matthew Wilson, New Lines: Critical GIS and the Trouble of the Map; David Beer, Metric Power; Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan (eds.), Life in the Age of Drone Warfare; Rob Sullivan, The Geography of … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, The Ways of the World – now published (and in paperback), and open access extract

Posted on November 28, 2017 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
David Harvey, The Ways of the World is now published, and an open access extract is available here. This book presents a sequence of landmark works in David Harvey’s intellectual journey over five decades. It shows…

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