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Benjamin Kunkel reviews Thomas Piketty in the LRB – free to read online. Update – many more reviews here: thanks to Simone Tulumello for the link.

Jens Bartleson –  “From Empire to Sovereignty—and Back?“, Ethics and International Affairs. A review essay of David Armitage, Foundations of Modern International Thought; Lauren Benton, A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires 1400–1900; and Jean L. Cohen’s Globalization and Sovereignty: Rethinking Legality, Legitimacy, and Constitutionalism.

Environment and Planning A theme issue on ‘territorial stigmatisation’.

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
The Times Higher has an interesting and worrying piece about the clash between the editors of a journal and their publisher Taylor & Francis. Here’s the opening few lines: A journal’s editorial board has been left on…

This looks interesting – thanks to Peter Gratton for the link.

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 11th February, 1981 Foucault continues the theme from the previous lecture of community in marriage. He largely refers to Stoics, particularly Musonius Rufus (best known as the teacher of Epictetus. Foucault takes the discussion…

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Foucault claims that the civilisation that can be designated Christian (the key term here surely), western, or European is unique in its attempt to codify sexuality rather than than use the kind of continuum of evaluations,…

Megaevents and the City virtual theme issue open access again for the duration of the World Cup.

Originally posted on Persistent Enlightenment:
Discussing Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (or, to be more accurate, that portions of it that turn up in The Foucault Reader) in a seminar I taught this spring, I was struck, once again, by…

Originally posted on Stockerblog:
Lecture of 28th January, 1981 Foucault distinguishes between the Graeco-Roman concept of aphrodisia, the Christian concept of flesh and the modern concept of sexuality. These are not three domains of distinct objects. They are three modes…