Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide – Fern Press, May 2026

Posted on May 8, 2026 by stuartelden

Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide – Fern Press, May 2026 Eyal Weizman is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict and the environment, both built and natural. As director of the organisation Forensic … Continue reading →

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Oli Mould, Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a Common Urban Future – Manchester University Press, February 2026

Posted on January 15, 2026 by stuartelden

Oli Mould, Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a Common Urban Future – Manchester University Press, February 2026 A visionary exploration of what the city might be in a postcapitalist world. In a world dominated by capitalism, where urban landscapes suffer from inequality, … Continue reading →

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David Harvey and Paris: a tribute for his 90th birthday

Posted on October 31, 2025 by stuartelden

In a retrospective of his long career, first published in 2021, David Harvey made the following claim: I have written quite a few books over the course of my academic career, beginning with Explanation in Geography (Harvey, 1969) and most recently Marx, Capital … Continue reading →

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Bruno Carvalho, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World – Princeton University Press, January 2026

Posted on July 29, 2025 by stuartelden

Bruno Carvalho, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World – Princeton University Press, January 2026 For the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagined future cities that would be radically different from … Continue reading →

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Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024

Posted on April 1, 2024 by stuartelden

Yousuf Al-Bulushi, Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City – Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 How are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid spatial segregation and anti-blackness? And what can movements across the world engaged in … Continue reading →

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My favourite academic books of 2023

Posted on December 31, 2023 by stuartelden

At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked. The criteria was that they were published in that year, and that I read and liked them. This means that good books which came out … Continue reading →

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Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023

Posted on November 23, 2023 by stuartelden

Tilman Schwarze, Space, Urban Politics, and Everyday Life: Henri Lefebvre and U.S. City – Springer, November 2023 This Book develops a novel and innovative methodological framework for operationalising Henri Lefebvre’s work for empirical research on the U.S. city. Building on … Continue reading →

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Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit – Duke University Press, August 2023

Posted on October 14, 2023 by stuartelden

Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit – Duke University Press, August 2023 The Prologue and Chapter 1 are available open access here In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new … Continue reading →

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Books received – Renou, Althusser, Safransky, Zumwalt, Woodard

Posted on October 13, 2023 by stuartelden

Mainly bought second-hand for the Indo-European project, along with Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit, sent by Duke University Press. The Rosemary LévyZumwalt book is the first part Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist … Continue reading →

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Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023

Posted on October 4, 2023 by stuartelden

Stefan Kipfer, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context – Haymarket, September 2023 Now in paperback: What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows … Continue reading →

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