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Cynthia Weber, Groningen lecture on Queer IR, and symposium at The Disorder of Things

Cynthia Weber’s Groningen lecture on Queer IR, which links to her book Queer International Relations: Sovereignty, Sexuality and the Will to Knowledge, out earlier this year with Oxford University Press. There is also a symposium on the book beginning at The … Continue reading

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Near Abroad

Originally posted on Critical Geopolitics:
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia’s “near abroad”—former Soviet republics that are now independent states neighboring Russia. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines, the…

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Foucault’s Last Decade – discussion with Peter Gratton, Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor in Symposium (open access)

Peter Gratton, “Foucault’s Last Decade: An Interview with Stuart Elden, Eduardo Mendieta and Dianna Taylor“, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol 20 No 2, 2016, pp. 181-211. The interview is open access in pdf form.

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Gregynog Ideas Lab VI Summer School, 10-15 July 2017

Gregynog Ideas Lab VI Summer School  We are delighted to be able to announce that the Gregynog Ideas Lab VI will take place from 10 – 15 July 2017 in Newtown, Wales, UK. Set up in 2012, the Gregynog Ideas … Continue reading

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Forthcoming publications and some open access pre-prints

I’ve updated the list of my forthcoming publications and added a few pre-prints which are available to download. These include my article on Foucault and Shakespeare, an encyclopaedia entry on the relation between territory and the urban, and some older pieces … Continue reading

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Books received – Shapiro, Keycheyan, Fassin, Muchembled, Samoyault

A number of mainly recently published books from Polity, in recompense for review work.

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Thomas Parker, Tasting French Terroir: The History of an Idea reviewed

Thomas Parker, Tasting French Terroir: The History of an Idea reviewed at H-France Review by Rod Philips. Thanks to Mike Heffernan for bringing this to my attention. This book explores the origins and significance of the French concept of terroir, demonstrating that … Continue reading

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Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World and Other Writings review at NDPR

My review of Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World and Other Writings has been published at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Eugen Fink (1905-1975) is not sufficiently well known in the Anglophone world, in part because of the lack … Continue reading

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Hot off the press – Dan Bulley’s Migration, Ethics and Power – the first book in the Society and Space book series

The first book in the Society and Space book series is Dan Bulley’s  Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces Of Hospitality In International Politics. I posted about the series as a whole earlier this week, and now the editor copies of this … Continue reading

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Evgeny Morozov & David Harvey on post-neoliberalism, Trump, infrastructure, sharing economy, smart city

Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb6rhHyJJ_4

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